FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
1730 (a): Ludhiana area, Punjab | |
Documented causes: unspecified | |
Documented effects: hoarding? |
"Punjab District Gazetteers: Ludhiana District, Part A" (1907) |
p167: "The earliest famine of which men talk is that of Sambat 1787 (A.D. 1730). The memory of it is preserved in the saying satassiake mária hua, applied to a man who has got food and refuses to feed a starving beggar; but no particulars are forthcoming as to how the people lived, or what was the extent of its ravages." |
1730 [scarcity only?]: Kashmir |
Documented causes: floods |
Documented effects: severe damage to buildings and crops |
Pandit Anand Koul, "Geography Of The Jammu And Kashmir State" (2nd ed., 1925) |
p102: [Floods] "Year: 1730 A.D. In whose time: Nawazish Khan. Extent of damages caused: Many houses and crops were destroyed." |