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Great Madras famine in India

A family during the Great Famine in India in 1876

February 25, 2018January 17, 2018 by Sherlock Pope

The Great Madras Famine of 1876–1878 affected a major part of south India. It caused distress to a population totaling 58,500,000, and eventually took the lives of an estimated 5.5 million women, men and children. A root cause of the Great Famine may have been caused by an intense drought resulting in crop failure in … Read more

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