INDIAN FAMINES - Institute for Social and Economic Change

RESULTS OF PAST FAJfINES.
CHAPTER III.
FINANCIAL AND OTHER RESULTS OF PAST
FAMINES.
So far I have given a sketch of some traditional
and recent famines. As before mentioned, I
consider that our first object of sell'rCh in thia
matter should be for reliable statistic!! of mortality,
because they exhibit the results of all
efforts made towards mitigating these disasters.
But in former times, neither in our own nor
in other countries was much attention paid
to statistics; therefore it is needless to look
for such details in the events recorded in
Chapter I. on (I Traditional and Historical
Famines." Nor are we mu.ch more fortunate
in this respect when we come to what I have
termed, perhaps rather arbitrarily, "Recent
Famines." As regards mortality, it has always