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The excess mortality in the famine has been estimated in a range whose low end is 5.6 million human fatalities, high end 9.6 million fatalities, and a careful modern demographic estimate 8.2 million fatalities. [3] [4] The famine is also known as the Southern India famine of 1876–1878 and the Madras famine of 1877.
Engraving from The Graphic, October 1877, showing the plight of animals as well as humans in Bellary district, Madras Presidency, British India during the Great Famine of 1876–1878. A photograph of a famine-stricken mother with a baby who at 3 months weighs 3 pounds.
A contemporary print of the Madras famine of 1877 showing the distribution of relief in Bellary, Madras Presidency. From the Illustrated London News, (1877) The first major famine that took place under East India Company's rule was the Bengal Famine of 1770.
In 1875–6 he officiated as Chief Commissioner of Mysore, where he dealt successfully with the distress prevalent before the famine of 1877, and he represented Madras in the legislative council of India from 1873 to 1877.
Buckingham served as the governor of Madras from 1875 to 1880. His tenure was plagued by deteriorating socio-economic and health conditions. In 1876, the Great Famine of 1876–78 broke out in Madras Presidency. By August 1877, the famine had spread all over the Presidency and over 18 million people were affected. [15]
Lytton's handling of the famine was controversial, and it was attacked by the British journalist William Digby and the businessman Dadabhai Naoroji, whose charges Lytton sought to refute. [7] Lytton personally toured the Madras Presidency and Mysore, districts particularly affected by the famine and where the relief operations had been badly ...
Two large famines occurred in Madras during this period, the Great Famine of 1876–78 and the Indian famine of 1896–97. [38] As a result of the first, the population of the presidency fell for the first time from 31.2 million in 1871 to 30.8 million in 1881.
The kingdom was devastated by the famine of 1877 and faced with a debt of eight lakh rupees. Soon after Rungacharlu took over as Dewan, he disbanded Hassan and Chitradurga districts and downgraded nine taluks into deputy amildar sections. The number of munsiff courts, sub-courts, and district jails were also reduced.