INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

RECENT FAMINES.
little stock of grain, and selling their cattle to
purchase food, they tried to make their way
hack to their homes in great destitution and
misery. Numbers have been thus passing
through Meywar in a starving condition.
Brigadier-General Montgomery, commanding at
Neemuch, writes: "The Marwaries are taking
back but few of the cattle brought down. N umbers
of these poor people died by the way.
Some are left to be devoured by dogs, and
others are buried a few inches below the surface
of the ground, and ¥ways in nullah * beds,
in view that the remains may be swept down
by rain to the sacred rivers. The second
great stream of emigrants passed via Pahlimpore
into Guzerat, and some towards Radhunpore.
They, too, were doomed to bitter disappointment.
The great floods which devastated
Gnzerat in August, sweeping grass and kurbee
stacks, as well as villages and cattle, into the
sea, buried the growing grass, and left a desert
for the Marwar herds. They were driven further,
dying of starvation at each stage, till a
• Nullah is R water-course usually dry except immediately
after rain.