Great Famine of 1876–1878

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The Great Famine of 1876–1878 was a famine in India under British Crown rule. It began in 1876 after an intense drought resulted in crop failure in the Deccan Plateau.

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Image: Willoughby Wallace Hooper, pictured dated 1876-78, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.