The great, disturbing, portentous, all-overshadowing fact connected with the history of India in recent years is the succession of famines. What do these famines mean ? Here is a picture from a ...

Your Artstor image groups were copied to Workspace. The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. Oxford Economic Papers Vol. 34, No. 2, Jul., 1982 Food Supply and Starvation: A Study of F ...

Journal of World History 24, no. 1 (2013): 135–76 ... Essen: Klartext, 2014. Gray, Peter. "Famine and Land in Ireland and India, 1845–1880: James Caird and the Political Economy of Hunger." The ...

Dr Andrea Major: The East India Company changed the way we dress ... the Honourable Company into the biggest crisis in its history. Famine had long been a part of life in Bengal, but the ...

The East India Company did not put a relief plan in place, and up to 10 million people died of starvation and illness. This was the first of several famines to hit India during British rule ...

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An Article titled “India’s Deserted Children” (January 5, 1897) in “A Young Man’s Paper” written by Robert P Wilder described the horrors the famine had inflicted upon children.

According to Dr Joanna Simonow, the author of the brilliant book “Ending Famine in India: A Transnational History of Food Aid and Development, c 1890-1950”, American Christians had in the ...