FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767

1629 (a) [to c1632]: Deccan
Documented causes: drought
Documented effects: first sign of the Great Famine

1630: M.S. Randhawa "A History of Agriculture in India" (vol II, 1982) pp340- (relevant entries from APPENDIX: CHRONOLOGY ...):

1630: The rains in 1629 having failed in the Deccan, famine and pestilence break out [i.e. this rain failure is the first sign of what may be India's greatest ever famine, details of which are given from 1630 onward]

1629: Hoozoor, misdated

Documented causes: n/a

Documented effects: n/a

Lieut. Col. A.T. Etheridge, "Report on Past Famines in the Bombay Presidency" (1868) [Reports collected by local officials in all districts]

p63 [Hoozoor, by the Hoozoor Deputy Collector, from the "Miratey Ahmedee"]: "Hijree 1038, Sumvut 1685-86, A.D. 1628-29." [Mis-dated: see 1630]