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The timeline of major famines in India during British rule covers major famines on the Indian subcontinent from 1765 to 1947. The famines included here occurred both in the princely states (regions administered by Indian rulers), British India (regions administered either by the British East India Company from 1765 to 1857; or by the British Crown, in the British Raj, from 1858 to 1947) and ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was the last catastrophic famine in India, and it holds a special place in the historiography of famine due to Sen's classic work of 1981 titled Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation whose accuracy and analysis has however been hotly contested by experts in the field.
The timeline of major famines in India prior to 1765 covers major famines recorded in India between 1900 BC and 1765 AD.The famines included here span the entirety of the Indian subcontinent, currently comprising the Republic of India, Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the People's Republic of Bangladesh.
Indian famine of 1896–1897 and Indian famine of 1899–1900 due to drought and British policies. [106] [107] [108] India: 2,000,000 (British territories), mortality unknown in princely states 1897–1901 Famine in East Africa, caused by drought and locust swarms. Resulted in increased grain prices, starvation and smallpox epidemic.
Section VII Archived 11 July 2010 at the Wayback Machine from Dharampal, India Before British Rule and the Basis for India's Resurgence, 1998. Chapter IX. The famine of 1770 in Bengal in John Fiske, The Unseen World, and other essays; R.C. Dutt, The Economic History of India. Archived 19 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine
This is a timeline of Indian history, ... in which Hyder Ali of Mysore defeats the armies of the British East India Company. 1770: Great Bengal famine of 1770, ...
The Bengal famine of 1943 was a famine in the Bengal province of British India (present-day Bangladesh, West Bengal and eastern India) during World War II.An estimated 800,000–3.8 million people died, [A] in the Bengal region (present-day Bangladesh and West Bengal), from starvation, malaria and other diseases aggravated by malnutrition, population displacement, unsanitary conditions, poor ...
Indian famine of 1899–1900; O. Orissa famine of 1866; R. Rajputana famine of 1869; T. Tamil Nadu famine (1891) Timeline of major famines in India during British rule;