In the most recent episode of Revisionist History Malcolm Gladwell makes the case that during the Bengal famine Winston Churchill withheld food that could easily have broken the famine in favor of stockpiling it for European use. Gladwell's main source seems to be Madhusree Mukherjee's book Churchill's Secret War.

My question is whether or not this was starving India an intentional decision by Winston Churchill? Was the need for a European stockpile a warranted fear that went terribly wrong or was the decision more along the lines of "screw those guys, we've got ours"?