Famine in Rajasthan
“The news from India is frightful in the extreme; ‘famine is devastating the ­country.’ The London Times says: ‘It is a drought in a land where the sun bakes up the soil almost to the hardness of ­pottery. Where irrigation works exist the scanty waters will suffice to produce scanty crops, but where there are no such works there is no vegetation to be found. Mr. Edmonstone, the Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwestern Provinces, said that, in a march of twenty miles, there was not a green blade in any ­direction. Families were fleeing away from the death which threatened them.’”

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1. 1. Wayne Williamson 08:20 PM 4/27/11

   Thanks again for reprinting this piece of history...so cool...

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