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Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 3, p. xxxvi.

xxxvi TABLE OF CONTESrYTS HI/. llsto,' of the Chief Famines, and of £Faine Relief PAGOI (I) Famine during the administration of the East India Compan- . . . . . . . . 483 Prices and food-sup,;ly 484 Relief 484 Mortality. . . . . 485 (2) Famines during the administration of the Crown, before i880 . . . . . . . . . 485 Famine of I86o- . . . 485 Colonel Baird-Smith's inquiry . 485 The Orissa famine of I865-7 . 486 The Rajputana famine of I86S-7o 487 The Bihar famine of 1873-4 . 488 Southern India famine of 1876-8 488 The Famine Commission of 1878-8o . 489 The Provisional Code and the famine wage 490 (3) Famines during the administration of the Crown, after I88o . . . . . . 490 Famine of 1896-7 . 490 The Famine Commission of 898 . . . . 491 The famine of I899-I9o 0. 491 The Famine Commission of I9oI . . . 493 Conclusion 494 Famine mortality 494 VI. Protection against Famine Protective aspect of the famine problem . 495 System of intelligence 495 Productive and protective railways and irrigation works 495 The famine relief and insurance grant 495 The place of railway and irrigation works in famine insurance 496 Railways and irrigation works as they affect material pro- gress 496 Other efforts to increase material prosperity 497 Steadily increasing recuperative power of the country 497 General progress 498 The one exception . 499 Bibliography . 500 Appendix: Chronological list of famines and scarcities from 1769 . . . . . . . . 5or INDEX . . , 593