 | This article duplicates the scope of other articles, specifically Timeline of major famines in India during British rule. (May 2017) |
| Famine | Years | Deaths (in millions) |
|---|---|---|
| Bengal Presidency | ||
| Great Bengal Famine | 1769–1770 | 10[1]
|
| Maratha Confederacy, Mysore, and Madras City | ||
| Chalisa famine | 1783–1784 | 11[2]
|
| Maratha Confederacy, Hyderabad, Mysore, Northern Circars and Madras City | ||
| Doji bara famine | 1789–1795 | 11[3]
|
| Company Rule in India | ||
| Agra famine of 1837–38 | 1837–1838 | 0.8[4]
|
| British Raj | ||
| Eastern Rajputana | 1860–1861 | 2[4]
|
| Orissa famine of 1866 | 1865–1867 | 5[5]
|
| Rajputana famine of 1869 | 1868–1870 | 1.5[6]
|
| Bihar famine of 1873–74 | 1873–1874 | 0
|
| Great Famine of 1876–78 | 1876–1878 | 10.3[7]
|
| Odisha, Bihar | 1888–1889 | 0.15[8]
|
| Indian famine of 1896–97 | 1896–1897 | 5[4]
|
| Indian famine of 1899–1900 | 1899–1900 | 4.5[4]
|
| Bengal famine of 1943 | 1943–1944 | 3[9]
|
| Total (1765–1947)[10][11][12] | 1769–1944 | 64.48 |
References
- ^ Kumar & Desai 1983, p. 528.
- ^ Grove 2007, p. 80.
- ^ Grove 2007, p. 83.
- ^ a b c d Fieldhouse 1996, p. 132.
- ^ Kumar & Desai 1983, p. 529.
- ^ Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III 1907, p. 488.
- ^ Davis 2001, p. 7.
- ^ Kumar & Desai 1983, pp. 530.
- ^ Kumar & Desai 1983, p. 531.
- ^ Bose 1916, pp. 79–81.
- ^ Rai 2008, pp. 263–281.
- ^ Koomar 2009, pp. 13–14.
- Bose, Sudhindra (1916), Some aspects of British rule in India Monographs University of Iowa, vol. 5, The University, pp. 79–81
- Davis, Mike (2001), Late Victorian Holocausts, Verso Books, ISBN 9781859847398
- Fieldhouse, David (1996), "For Richer, for Poorer?", in Marshall, P. J. (ed.), The Cambridge Illustrated History of the British Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 400, pp. 108–146, ISBN 0521002540
- Grove, Richard H. (2007), "The Great El Nino of 1789–93 and its Global Consequences: Reconstructing an Extreme Climate Even in World Environmental History", The Medieval History Journal, 10 (1&2): 75–98, doi:10.1177/097194580701000203
- Imperial Gazetteer of India vol. III (1907), The Indian Empire, Economic (Chapter X: Famine, pp. 475–502, Published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council, Oxford at the Clarendon Press. Pp. xxx, 1 map, 552.
- Koomar, Roy Basanta (2009), The Labor Revolt in India, BiblioBazaar, LLC, pp. 13–14, ISBN 9781113349668
- Kumar, Dharma; Desai, Meghnad, eds. (1983), The Cambridge Economic History of India, vol. 2: c. 1757 – c. 1970, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-22802-2
- Rai, Lajpat (2008), England's Debt to India: A Historical Narrative of Britain's Fiscal Policy in India, BiblioBazaar, LLC, pp. 263–281, ISBN 9780559800016