INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change
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1<br />
No.<br />
of<br />
Famine.<br />
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1.<br />
II.<br />
III.<br />
I IV.<br />
I V.<br />
VI.<br />
VII.<br />
VIII.<br />
IX.<br />
X.<br />
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I<br />
2 I 3 4 5 6<br />
11 12<br />
Amount Ex- I<br />
i<br />
LOCALITY AFFECTED.<br />
pEmdell. ill- Cost of Remissions<br />
FAMINE DEATHS.<br />
eluding Gov- Relief per' <strong>and</strong> Suapen- I<br />
ernment Re- Head of sions of , ____-,-___ 'I c"o'j:' 'I<br />
Year. I -- 'I'nccavec.· ,-<br />
liedf'PrPuLlk Popula- R L<strong>and</strong> ',I !percentageIFaminc'<br />
District or<br />
Area. Ponulation. a.n ivate tion. evenue. N be<br />
Province. .. Charity. um r. of Popu- '<br />
I ,<br />
! lation.<br />
l '---1--- -----<br />
Sq. mil .. ..<br />
£ sterling . £ sterling. £ sterling. : :<br />
33<br />
__ I PreSidency.!<br />
7 8 I 9 10!<br />
1770 Bengal I Bengal 130,()( r I<br />
1783<br />
...<br />
30,000,000 Shil.l~~gs·l £13,770 i £80,332 :-;i\; at all evclltlllO 000 \.JOO I<br />
no tmC'e of it. ' ,<br />
I •••<br />
1803<br />
1837<br />
"<br />
"<br />
North-West<br />
&1<br />
Punjabt<br />
North-Western<br />
Province<br />
" "<br />
1860<br />
I<br />
" "<br />
Punjab<br />
" "<br />
1866<br />
Behar<br />
"<br />
,~<br />
Oris8a<br />
"<br />
"<br />
Madras<br />
Ganjam, &c.<br />
1868 ' Bengal N orth-Western<br />
Province<br />
XI.<br />
" I "<br />
r XII. i<br />
" "<br />
,<br />
,XIII.<br />
, "<br />
I XIV: 1873 "<br />
20,34 No recoro<br />
25,00 , , 8,500,000<br />
18,6' 3!" 9,821,000<br />
8,7 8. 3,179,000<br />
.26,19<br />
7,739,717<br />
7,64 ,I 3,015,826<br />
6,4 0' 1,100,000<br />
29,01 :~ lO,269,2(X'<br />
i<br />
4e6,OOO§<br />
No record<br />
74,8+! I<br />
14R,59!) ,.<br />
32,51(·1<br />
32,536 '<br />
I<br />
748,262<br />
23,1·!:1<br />
196,422<br />
Ajmere<br />
2,6.<br />
162,4Oi<br />
Punjab<br />
...<br />
42,167<br />
... ,<br />
34,761) !<br />
I<br />
Bengal 50,00 25,000,000 ' 6,500,0(1) !<br />
I<br />
H Central Provinces<br />
!<br />
. .. •••<br />
340,923 £lOO,(Xlll No record 111.<br />
i<br />
. 17 488,736. Nil I<br />
800,000 I 10 IV .<br />
. 30 132,430 34,021 } I 2,000,000 t: 16<br />
f<br />
.20 67,452<br />
.09<br />
V .<br />
., YII.<br />
.. ·'20 'i 135,6761<br />
VI.I<br />
4.95 , 814,469 2i nIL'<br />
.42 3,200<br />
.38 93,024 62,772<br />
1<br />
7.62<br />
10,898 1'\<br />
13,998 8,5fl5 i =.;:) :.<br />
I<br />
56,441 f 106,500 I<br />
•<br />
* See footnote, page 50.<br />
t No particulars available; these provinces w .. re Ul d~r native governments at the time,<br />
=:: This is on the authority of Sir A. Cotton; but it ppears to me, from what I have gathered from official dccuments,<br />
§ This does not include the native states of Rajputa·la.<br />
Th" blank 'J'ell"" Tn,,, "t l'l'lSeIlt unable to fill II'.<br />
8,353 XllJ<br />
~"-.~/<br />
,-<br />
\ I \<br />
. of tlll' mortality.
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