FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
1713 (a): Osmanabad area, Maharashtra (+ to Nanded?) | |
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] |