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THE Government of India has announced the following names of the chairman and members of the famine inquiry commission: Sir John Woodhead, Finance Member of the Government of Bengal 1932–1937, Governor of Bengal during June–November, 1939 (chairman); Mr. S. V. Ramamurti, adviser to the Governor of Madras and formerly director of agriculture, Madras; Dr. W. R. Aykroyd, director of the Nutritional Research Laboratory, Coonoor; Khan Bahadur Mien Afzal Hussain, formerly principal of the Agricultural College, Lyallpur; Sir Manilal B. Nanavati, president of the Indian Society of Agricultural Economics, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India during 1936–1941, and an authority on sociological and agricultural problems; Mr. R. A. Gopalaswami (secretary), assisted by Rai Bahadur D. N. Maitra.
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Indian Famine Inquiry. Nature 154, 142 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154142a0
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