Famine reliefG.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode, 1880 - Famines |
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administration adopted agricultural amount average Behar Bengal Bhawalpur calamity cause cent Central Provinces charge charity classes condition cost crop Deccan Dera distress distribution districts of Bombay districts of Madras drought duty effect employment estimated expenditure export extent extreme failure famine relief food grain Gartok Ghats Ghilzai given Government of India gratuitous relief Guzerat harvest Hyderabad importance increase Indian famines Indus inquiry intense irrigation Jhang labour lakhs of rupees land revenue large numbers Leiah less means measures of relief meet ment millions monsoon months mortality Mysore Narbada Native necessary North North-Western Provinces northern occasion ordinary Orissa Oudh period persons poor-house population possible pressure principle Punjab quantity railways rain rain-fall Rajputana Rampur regard relief measures relief-houses relief-works responsibility result rice Satlej scarcity seasons secure Sindh southern square miles suffering sufficient supervision surplus tons tract trade visited wages Western Western Ghats whole