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Great Famine in South India (1876–78)

On the Indian independence map as “The Deccan — the famine of 1876–78”

1876–78 — The monsoon failed, and between about 5.6 and 9.6 million people died across Madras, Bombay, Mysore and Hyderabad. In relief camps, a day’s labor earned one pound of grain and one anna. Wheat continued to be exported from India. Remember them.

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British Raj and the early Congress (chapter 2 of Indian independence)
Atlas
Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
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Map showing Great Famine in South India (1876–78), site of memory in Indian Independence & Partition, 1857–1964
SITE OF MEMORY · INDIAN INDEPENDENCE & PARTITION, 1857–1964

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