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FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
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1713 (a): Osmanabad area, Maharashtra (+ to Nanded?)1713 map
Documented causes: drought
Documented effects: unspecified

"Report of the Fact Finding Committee for Survey of Scarcity Areas, Maharashtra State" (vol. 1, 1973)
p6: "In respect of Osmanabad and Nanded regions 1713, 1747 and 1787 have been mentioned as years of famine due to drought." [As the two places are some distance apart, it may be that not all the three famines affected both]
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