| Government suspended the import and transit duties on all | kinds of grain and provisions, and themselves imported | grain from Bengal. In the latter part of 1791 the export | of rice from Tanjore was prohibited, except to the | distressed districts. Rice was distributed by Government, | and relief was afforded by employing the poor on public | works.”—Danvers, 1877. | | This was the first occasion of the poor being employed on | public works by the Government in India. | 1802-4 | India. Famine in the Nizam’s dominions (Bombay Presidency). | “This famine was caused in the several districts affected | by it by four distinct causes, which operated apparently | about the same time. In Kach the crops are said to have | been destroyed by locusts. In Pahlumpur, Rerva Kanta, | Surat, Guzerat, Hyderabad, Belgaum, and Rutnagherry, the | famine is stated to have been caused by want of rain. | Candeish was overrun by the armies of Holkar; and the | Pindaree bands sacked and burnt villages in every | direction, even destroying the grain standing in the | fields; and the same fate attended the districts of | Ahmednagar, Poona, and Sholapur: whilst the influx of | starving people from other districts into Sattara, | Kolapur, Dharwar, and Colaba, caused a scarcity of food | in those districts.”—Danvers, 1877. | 1804-7 | India. Scarcity in the Bombay Presidency, following the | unfavourable season of 1804; severe pressure on the | poorer classes. “In the latter part of the following year | a general failure of crops appears to have occurred in | most parts of the presidency, and the scarcity caused | thereby had not passed over until October 1807.”—Danvers, | 1877. | 1812-13 | India. Famine in parts of Sind and other neighbouring | districts, attributed to failure of rain. “In Kach and | Pahlunpore the loss was aggravated by locusts; and in | Kattywar it was followed by a plague of rats. Guzerat | suffered most from scarcity caused by export of grain to | the famine districts; and Ahmedabad was overrun with | starving immigrants. In Mahee Kanta the distress was | caused by internal disturbances; whilst in Broach there | was no failure of rain, but the crops, before they were | reaped, were entirely devoured by locusts, which came in | very large numbers, and spread all over the | country.”—Danvers, 1877. | 1812-14 | India. Scarcity in Madras Presidency, following