B.C. | | 503-443 | India. During the reign of the Emperor Jei-chund; extending | over this period, there was a great pestilence and | famine. | A.D. | | 1022 | Hindoostan (reign of Musaood I). Great drought followed by | famine; whole countries entirely depopulated. This year | was remarkable for drought and famines in many parts of | the world.—Dow’s _Hindustan_. | 1052-60 | Hindustan. There was seven years’ drought in Ghor (? Ghore, | supposed to be one of the earliest seats of the Afghan | race), so that the earth was burned up, and thousands of | men and animals perished with heat and famine.—Dow’s | _Hindustan_. | 1291 | India. No rain fell in the provinces about Delhi, and there | was in consequence a most terrible famine.—_Vide_ | Birni’s _History of Feroze_. | 1342 | India. Famine in Delhi, very severe; few of the inhabitants | could obtain the necessaries of life. | 1344-45 | India. A famine, supposed to have extended more or less | over the whole of Hindustan. Very severe in the Deccan. | The Emperor Mahommed, it is said, was unable to procure | the necessaries for his household.—Dow’s _Hindustan_. | 1412-13 | India. Great drought, followed by famine, occurred in the | Ganges-Jumna delta. | 1471 | India. A famine in Orissa. | 1495 | India. A great dearth occurred about this date in | Hindustan. | 1521 | India. A very general famine in Sind. | 1540-43 | India. A general famine in Sind during these years. | 1631 | India. A general famine caused by drought and war; and | throughout Asia. | 1661 | India. Famine caused by drought, and supposed to be | confined to the Punjab. | 1703 | India. Famine in Thar and Parkar districts of Sind. | 1733 | India. Famine; appears to have been confined to North | Western Provinces. | 1739 | India. Famine in Delhi and its neighbourhood. | 1745-52 | India. Famine in Nara districts of Sind, and Thar and | Parkar. | 1769-70 | Hindustan. First great Indian famine of which we have | record. It was estimated that 3,000,000 of people | perished. The air was so infected by the noxious effluvia | of dead bodies, that it was scarcely possible to stir | abroad without perceiving it; and without hearing also | the frantic cries of the victims of famine who were seen | at every stage of suffering and death. Whole families