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‘India underwent suffering and mortality in the wake of recurring famines’ in the later half of the 19th century. Comment.

  • UPSC 2003
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

The second half of the nineteenth century, precisely the period of the railway's expansion and the empire's greatest administrative confidence, was also the era of India's most lethal famines.

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  • The Major Famines of the Later Nineteenth Century
  • The Human Dimension of Suffering and Mortality
  • Colonial Policy and the Aggravation of Famine
  • Historiographical Assessment

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