1783-84. In the N.W. Provinces of the Panjab Wati great drought in 1781, 1782, and 1783 ; and in October 1783 a terriblo famine occurred in all the countries from beyond Lahore to Karumnesa, the western boundary of Behar. The famine had been already felt in all the western districts towards Dchli ; to the north of Calcutta, the crops had been nearly burned up.
1785. A million of people are said to have died of famine in tho Panjab.
1787-88- Famine prospects in Behar and N.W. Pro. vincea from excess of min and floods. Export of grain prohibited.
There have been four famines in Ganjam within historical recollection ; the first, 1789 to 1792 ; second, 1799 to 1801; third in 1836; and the fourth in 1865-1866. Of these, the first svas the most severe, far surpassing in intensity that of 1866. In the third period of scarcity in Ganjam, in 1836, cholera was very prevalent, and many. of the cattle also perished. The great famine which desolated Bengal, 1770-72, did not extend to Ganjam. The extent of the famine of 1791-92 is not anywhere exactly given.
1790-91 A.D. A very severe famine in Baroda and adjoining districts ; many people emigrated, others destroyed themselves, some ate their own children.
1791. In Cutch, a famine was caused by innumerable black ants, which almost destroyed vegetation.
1790-92. Serious dearth in the northern districts of the Madras Presidency from 'November 1790.to Noverti. her 1792 ; many deaths from starvation ; grain I exports from Tanjore prohibited, Anil Government distributed rice.
1802-4. Famine in the Nixam's dominions. In Cute)), the crops were destroyed by locusts; In Pahlunpur, Rowe Kanta, Surat, Gujcrat, Hyderabad, Belgaum, and Itatnagherry, by want of rain. Kandesh was overrun by tho armies of llolkar and the Pindaris, and famine raged in Ahmadnaggur, Poona, and Sholapur and in Satan, Holhapur, Dharwar, and Geisha the great multitude of starving immigrants caused. scarcity.
1804-7. In the Bombay Presidency, 1804 was lin un favourable season, and the following year a general failure of crops occurred ; famine was severe about Poona and Ahmadnaggur, and the scarcity did not cease till October 1807.
1812-13. In 1810 flights of locuats had appeared in the Bengal provinces, from which they passed through the southern parts of Hindustan, and in fifteen rnonths they arrived in blarwar. In 1811
tho annual rain failed in Alarwar, and the locusts entered l'atan, in the N.W. of Gujerat, and from thence scoured Kattyawar, and on one occasion they appeared as far south as Broach, but they disappeared with the beginning of the monsoon of 1812. The destruction was deplorable, and the mortality amongst the Gujerat people and the immigrants from Marwar was immense.
1812-13. Famine prevailed in parts of Sind, Cutch, Palanpur, Gujemt, Ahmadabad, lilahikanta, Kat. tyawar, and Broach. In Cutch and Palanpur and Broach it WR8 aggravated by locusts. In Kattyawar it wee followed by a plague of rats ; Ahmadabad was ovemin by starving immigrants, and that in Gujerat was increased by the exporta. tion of gmin.
1812 14. In Madras Presidency, considerable scarcity.
1813-14. In many parts of the Agra district the 1812 autumn crop failed, and the spring harvest of 1813 was indifferent, and this was followed by excessive rain.
1819-20. Bundelkhand kluirif crop failed, and frost nipped the spring crops of 1820.
1819. Failure of crops in Ahmadabad and Satruntwari, caused by excessive rain.s.
1819. In Nagpur, the price of jowari rose from Ra. 5 to Rs. 30 per candy (As. Journ. 1820, ix. p. 79). 1820-22. Partial drought in Upper Sind, causing famine. 1824-25. Famine in Dchli and neighbouring provinces of Hindustan, in the Karnatic and western diatricts of the Peninsula.
1825-26. In the N. W. Provinces, Sanger, Nerbadda, from want of min, caused by blight and thunder-storme.
18'27-28. In parts of Hindustan, in the Rania and Simi parganas.
1831-32. In Poona and the S. Mahratta country and Madras ; and Gerrard gave an account of a famine at Herat in 1832, when 25,000 persons perished (in As. Journ., new series, vol. xiii. part 2, p. 165).
1833-34. In some of the N.W. Provinces ; in Ajmir not ono ahower fell in 1832. In 1833, drought severe in Bundelkhand and Cawnpur.
1833-34. In famine in Bundclkhand in 1834, GOO persons died (As. Journ., new series, vol. xvi.). That of 1837 vras noticed, vol. xxvi. part 1, and that in 1838 in vol. xxvii. part 1.