Question

During 1958-1961, India's economic condition was not much better than China. Yet India not have a famine of the kind China had. Why? Explain any two points.

Answer 1

In simple words, Roughly three crore citizens perished in China's drought of 1958-61. India, on the other hand, did not experience a drought as China did. The cause for this was the disparity between the two countries' economic policies. India's constitutional government reacted to the food crisis in a way that China's did not.

A convergence of progressive agricultural strategies, societal expectations, massive corruption, and natural catastrophes including such drought conditions and flooding in agricultural regions contributed to the Great Chinese Famine.