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 China’s famine of 1958-61 was worst recorded famine in world

history.Nearly three core people in this famine.During those days ,India’s

economic condition was not much better than China .Yet India did not have

afamine of the kind China had. Economist think that this was a result of

different government policies in the two countries. The existence of

democracy in India made the Indian government respond to food scarcity in a

way that the Chinese government did not. They point out that no large-scale

famine has ever taken place in an independent and democratic country. If

China too had multiparty elections, an opposition party and a press free to

criticise the government, then so many people may not have died in the

famine.

I)When was great famine hit China?

II)How did Indian government deal with great famine?

III) How do a democratic country become responsible and accountable

government?