Great Famine of 1876–1878 - Wikipedia
WEBThe Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau. [1] It affected south and Southwestern India—the British-administered presidencies of Madras and Bombay, and the princely states of Mysore and Hyderabad—for a period of two ...
Viewpoint: How British let one million Indians die in famine
WEBJun 10, 2016 · The 1886 famine in Orissa state killed over a million people and galvanised Indians into fighting against British colonial rule, writes historian Dinyar Patel.
Famine in India - Wikipedia
WEBThe famine of 1876–1878, also known as the Great Famine of 1876–1878, caused a large migration of agricultural laborers and artisans from southern India to British tropical colonies, where they worked as indentured labourers on plantations.
Who was the photographer who took these dehumanising images …
WEBNov 20, 2017 · Willoughby Wallace Hooper, who shot the famine of 1876-1888, often referred to the people in his pictures as objects.
A family during the Great Madras famine in India, 1876
WEBSep 8, 2017 · The Great Famine of 1876–78, also known as the Madras famine of 1877, covered a major part of south India and took an estimated 5.5 million lives. The famine ultimately covered an area of 670,000 square kilometers (257,000 sq mi) and caused distress to a population totaling 59 million.
Drought and Famine in India, 1870–2016 - Mishra - 2019
WEBJan 22, 2019 · The 1876–1877 famine in south and north India affected more than 50 million people (IGI, 1907) of which about 6.1 to 10.3 million (Table S1) perished (Davis, 2001; Fieldhouse, 1996). The 1895–1900 drought period identified by the SAD analysis includes two famines: 1896–1897 and 1899–1900.
Starvation, Disease and Death: Explaining Famine Mortality in Madras ...
WEBFeb 23, 2011 · This paper attempts to evaluate competing theories forwarded by modern historians to explain the mortality caused by one of the most well-known famines in nineteenth-century India: the Madras famine of 1876–8.
WEBThe current analysis is to focus on the understanding of the causes and consequences of the Great famine that occurred during 1876-1878. Keywords: Great Famine, Madras Presidency, Relief Measures, Scarcity, Britishers, Indian Government, Population.
Great Famine of 1876 - Environment & Society Portal
WEBDuring the mid-nineteenth century a series of severe famines hit British India. Of these, the Great Famine of 1876 caused the most deaths. Between six and ten million people starved to death as a consequence of drought, bad harvest, and poor British food policies.
'The last of the herd', the Great Famine, India, 1877 (c)
WEBA major famine developed in India in 1876 after a sustained and severe drought led to the failure of harvests. The famine was particularly harsh in the south and south-west of India but its effect spread across the subcontinent in the following two years.