TY - BOOK ED - India ED - Agricole Publishing Academy, New Delhi TI - Report of the Indian Famine Commission: 1880-1885 SN - 8185005656 U1 - 363.80954 22 PY - 1989/// CY - New Delhi PB - Agricole Pub. KW - Famines KW - India KW - History KW - Famine, 1880-1885 N1 - Commission of Inquiry on Indian Famines, appointed by the Government of India, 16th May, 1878; The book divided in the 3 Parts; Pt. I -- Famine relief.- [2], iv, 69 p. -- pt. II -- Measures of protection and prevention - viii, 71-185 p. -- pt. III -- Famine histories - vii, 1-264 p N2 - The document deals with all aspects of devastating famines to which the provinces of India had from time to time been liable directly to the occurrence of seasons of unusual drought, the faliure of the customary rain fall leading to the failure of food crops on which the subsistence of the population depends ER -