Infrastructure capacity and the Bengal famine response

A participant recalls a book, with its title uncertain, criticizing the lack of spare capacity in privately built Indian railways. Double tracking is offered as investment that a larger public plan could have provided. Clarke then argues that Churchill bears responsibility for Bengal famine relief failures through railway spending restraint in the 1920s. He contrasts that earlier decision with his view that wartime relief was constrained by merchant-shipping shortages, submarines in the Indian Ocean, and inadequate escorts. In his interpretation, stronger rail capacity could have supplied an alternative way to move rice. This is an attributed explanation of responsibility and logistics, with no independent documentary demonstration supplied in the exchange.