| unfavourable season of 1811; “but no serious distress | appears to have been generally experienced throughout the | presidency on this occasion, although the district of | Madras suffered considerably.”—Danvers, 1877. | 1813-14 | India. Partial famine in many parts of the Agra district; | the autumn crop of 1812 failed, and the harvest of the | following spring was indifferent. In 1813 the rains set | in late, and were then only partial. | 1819 | India. Great scarcity in the Allahabad and neighbouring | districts, under the following circumstances:—”The rains | set in late, but when they did come they appear to have | fallen in abundance. The land which had hitherto been so | dried up by the heat that sowing had to be undertaken | twice without any effect, became so drenched that a third | sowing was not possible till the middle of September. In | Bundelkhand the kharif of 1819 failed extensively, and | frost nipped the spring crops in the beginning of | 1820.“—Danvers, 1877. | 1820-22 | India. Famine in Upper Sind and neighbouring provinces, | caused only partially by drought. “In 1819 there was a | failure of crops in Ahmedabad, caused by unseasonable | weather after the monsoon; whilst in Sawunt Warru it was | occasioned by a sudden and unusual fall of rain, | accompanied by a terrific storm—the former destroying the | ground crops, and the latter the bagayut | produce.”—Danvers, 1877. | 1824-25 | India. Famine in several districts. In Delhi and | neighbouring provinces it was due to severe drought; in | the Madras Presidency, and more particularly in the | Carnatic and Western districts, the cause was failure of | rains at the usual season. In Hindustan the same. | 1825-26 | India. Famine in the north-west provinces, occasioned by | failure of rains; and scarcity in Saugor and Nerbada | territories caused by blight, and a succession of heavy | thunderstorms. | 1827-28 | India. Famine in parts of Hindustan. “The autumn of 1827 | and the following spring were marked by drought across | the Jumna. In Pergunnahs, Raneea, and Sirsa, the rains | commenced auspiciously, but stopped abruptly early in | July, and did not begin again till the 22nd September. It | was then too late to retrieve the mischief which the | drought had already caused; and to add to the general | distress, there was every chance of a failure in the | wheat.