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Explain the factors responsible for the recurrence of famines in the nineteenth century. What remedial measures were adopted by the British Indian Government?

  • UPSC 2017
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

Famine was not unknown to pre-colonial India, but its nineteenth-century recurrence under British rule acquired an unprecedented frequency and scale that has to be explained structurally, not as mere bad weather.

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  • Structural Economic Factors Behind Recurrent Famine
  • Scale of the Calamity
  • Evolution of British Remedial Measures
  • Assessing the Remedial Framework

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