INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change
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~34<br />
1 S<br />
No.<br />
of<br />
I-~amine.<br />
Year.<br />
I. 1770<br />
II. 1783<br />
III. 1803<br />
IV. 1837<br />
V. 1860<br />
VI. I<br />
"<br />
VII. 1866<br />
VIII.<br />
"<br />
IX.<br />
"<br />
X. 1868<br />
XI.<br />
"<br />
XII. t><br />
XIII.<br />
"<br />
XIV. 1873<br />
3 4 5 6<br />
PreSidenCY./<br />
I<br />
LOCAUTY AFFECTED.<br />
District or<br />
Province.<br />
Area.<br />
Population.<br />
Sq. miles.<br />
Bengal Bengal 130,()()(jl 30,000,000 1<br />
North-West<br />
Punjabt<br />
&1<br />
"<br />
"<br />
N orth-Western<br />
Province<br />
" "<br />
" "<br />
"<br />
"<br />
"<br />
20,34i2 No record<br />
25,()()()3 8,500,{)OO~<br />
18,639~ 9,821,oooa<br />
Punjab 8,788' 3,179,000 4<br />
Behar 26,IWI 7,739,717 5<br />
Orissa 7,649 7 3,OI5,82~<br />
Madras Ganjam, &c. 6,400 8 1,100,()()()7<br />
Bengal N orth-Western 29,013» 1O,269,200s<br />
Province<br />
Ajruere<br />
I<br />
2,672 10 426,OOO9§<br />
"<br />
"<br />
"<br />
Punjab<br />
, Central Pro-<br />
, vinces<br />
" I Bengal 50,000 11 1<br />
25,OOO,()()()It<br />
.. .c<br />
>'{ ~<br />
.,-<br />
---_.- •<br />
_ ,t•. ling<br />
£1:~.i70 1<br />
,( ,<br />
to<br />
;l.';,~99 3<br />
:l2,~ I ()4<br />
:32,~366<br />
s HS,!G2<br />
23,1437<br />
19M22B<br />
lG::.,' ,<br />
-12,i67':~<br />
34,~6OI 1<br />
• Sec footnote, pHge 50.<br />
I<br />
t No particulars available; these provinces were under native goverDmeJI~ It the time.<br />
t<br />
8<br />
Cost of I Rem:ons<br />
P.·li(·! ller <strong>and</strong> Suspcn-.<br />
"f I sions of<br />
. ': da·<br />
I L<strong>and</strong><br />
tiun. Reveuue.<br />
Shillings.<br />
£ 8terling.<br />
... £80,332 1<br />
'" ...<br />
... 340,923"<br />
I<br />
.17 488,7363<br />
I<br />
.30 132,4304<br />
.20 67,452 s<br />
.09 9,8()()6<br />
4.95 156,444 7<br />
.42 12,54OS<br />
.38 122,99i9<br />
7.62 13,998 10<br />
... 56,441 11<br />
...<br />
'"<br />
...<br />
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,<br />
I<br />
.- -<br />
10 11 12<br />
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13<br />
Tuccavee.-<br />
FAlIL'iE DI!ATns_<br />
Number.<br />
£ sterling.<br />
Nil; atall events, 10 ()()() ()()()1<br />
no tI'".Lce of it; , ,<br />
... ...<br />
£100,UOO 1<br />
Nil'<br />
!<br />
No record<br />
I 800,000'<br />
34,0213 } 1 2 ,OOO,0003t1<br />
•..<br />
220' 135,676 4<br />
'" 814,469 5<br />
3,200s 10,898 6<br />
93,024 6 i 62,7727<br />
8,595 7 106,5()()8<br />
... ... I<br />
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:: This is on the authority of Sir A. Cotton; but it appears to me, from whi 1 have gathered from official documents, much in excess of th~ mortalitv.<br />
§ This does not include the native states of Rajputana.<br />
The blank space~ I am at present unable to lill up,
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