Famine Truths, Half Truths, Untruths

31 per cent agricultural Akbar ancient army authority average Behar Benares Bengal Bernier Bombay British administration British India Calcutta causes of famine Central Provinces century Congress crop area cultivation deaths Delhi denounced Digby Digby's districts double cropped drought Dutt Dutt's elephants Elliot empire England English enormous estimate facts Famine Commission famine of 1770 famine reports Famines in India figures Government grain gross produce half Hindus hundred Hunter increased industry Jahangir jizya labour lacs land revenue land tax landlords Lord William Bentinck Madras Megasthenes ment million sterling millions of acres millions of rupees misstatement Mogul Moslem native nearly never officers Oudh patriots peasant peasantry Permanent Settlement poor population Prosperous India Punjab quotes railways rain rainfall Raja rent rule rulers rupee ryots sovereign spent square miles statement statistics Strabo taxation tenants thousand tion Tippera truth twenty untruth Warren Hastings writes zemindars