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FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
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1730 (a): Ludhiana area, Punjab1730 map
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."
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