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INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

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PREVENTIVE ]'(EASURES. 193<br />

CHAPTER VII.<br />

PREVENTIVE AND MITIGATIVE MEASURES.<br />

I MAY state my opinion at the outset, that<br />

famines will recur in India <strong>for</strong> ever unless some<br />

vast climatological change occurs, a prospect<br />

which we have no business to speculate upon.<br />

There are various possible methods of mitigating<br />

<strong>and</strong> alleviating such disasters, but to<br />

prevent them in toto is, I think, altogether<br />

beyond our control We have adopted many<br />

means to ameliorate the dire effects of these<br />

calamities, <strong>and</strong> we have undertaken many measures<br />

to partially prevent a recurrence of them.<br />

As ideas exp<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> appliances are invented.<br />

so will we continue to utilise them. On this<br />

subject of the past <strong>and</strong> the present state of<br />

society in respect to famines, Dr Hunter

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