Churchill Deliberately Starved Indians, Says National Portrait Gallery Display
15th June 2026
A National Portrait Gallery display has claimed Winston Churchill deliberately starved Indians to death.
Helen Cammock’s video installation was recently placed among the portraits of significant figures in British history.
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The voiceover of the 40-minute film criticises a number of national figures depicted in the taxpayer-funded gallery, and incorrectly claims that Churchill “wilfully” inflicted mass starvation on Indians.
The accusation relates to the Bengal famine of 1943, a lethal food shortage caused by natural disasters and exacerbated by local mismanagement and wartime supply problems.
Some authors and activists have attempted to pin the blame directly on Churchill, who was prime minister. However, he took action to alleviate the famine, and his Cabinet sent supplies to the subcontinent after he declared that “something must be done”.
While India was under British rule at the time, and fighting against the Japanese, the installation at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) suggests that Churchill used mass starvation as a weapon of war.
Needless to say, he did no such thing. But he’s a Dead White Male, and so must be hurled into the void by the Wokerati.