INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

RECENT FAMINES.
CHAPTER II.
RECENT FAMINES.
IN describing, as I have endeavoured to do, a
series of famines such as these, it is by no
means an easy matter to avoid going over and
over the same ground. No doubt the leading
features of each are generally similar. It
may happen that in one case more tragic
events have occurred, which are now pointed
to as landmarks in history; but, as a rule, to
describe the state of society in one famine is to
describe it in all other like disasters. There are
the sufferings and the mortality of the people
from direct want, and there are the fell diseases
that lie in the wake of famine, and the subsequent
depopulation cansed thereby; and there is
also the dreadful mortality among the cattIer.
It is therefore almost unavoidable, in giving a