[Scenes of the Plague in Bombay, 1896–97, and the Indian Famine, 1899–1900] Work Type. Albums. Date. 1896–1900. Medium. Albumen silver prints from glass negatives and gelatin silver prints.

Famine is no new tale in India. There were hunger plagues in 1867, 1878, 1897, 1900, costing a total of more than 8,000,000 lives. Despite nearly 200 years of British enlightenment, ...

Indian famine, suicides rumored, sparking response by Mexicans to give aid ...

Abstract. Using information contained in the eighteenth to twentieth century British administrative documents, preserved in the National Archives of India (NAI), we present a 218-year (1729–1947 AD) ...