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Great Famine in South India (1876–78)
On the Industrial Revolution map as “Madras — the famine of 1876–78”
1876–1878 — Drought and failed harvests in southern and western India, while grain is still exported and relief is kept minimal. Estimates of the dead run from about 5.5 to over 10 million. Remember them.
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- Impact of the Industrial Revolution (chapter 12 of Industrial Revolution)
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- The Industrial Revolution, 1750–1914
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- Indian independence · Indian independence · Indian independence
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