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The Indian famine of 1896–1897 was a famine that began in Bundelkhand, India, early in 1896 and spread to many parts of the country, including the United Provinces, the Central Provinces and Berar, Bihar, parts of the Bombay and Madras presidencies, and the Hissar district of the Punjab; in addition, the princely states of Rajputana, Central India Agency, and Hyderabad were affected by the famine. All in all, during the two years, the famine affected an area of and a population of 69.5 million.〔 Although large-scale relief was offered throughout the famine-stricken regions in accordance with the Provisional Famine Code of 1883, the mortality, both from starvation and accompanying epidemics, was very high: approximately 1 million people are thought to have died as a result of the famine.〔 ==Course== The Bundelkhand district of Agra Province experienced drought in the autumn of 1895 as a result of poor summer monsoon rains.〔 When the winter monsoon failed as well, the provincial government declared a famine early in 1896 and began to organise relief.〔 However, the summer monsoon of 1896 brought only scanty rains, and soon the famine had spread to the United Provinces, Central Provinces and Berar, portions of the presidencies of Bombay and Madras, and of the provinces of Bengal, Punjab, and even Upper Burma.〔 The native states affected were Rajputana, Central India Agency, and Hyderabad.〔 The famine affected mostly British India: of the total area of affected, lay in British territory; similarly, of the total famine-afflicted population of 67.5 million, 62.5 million lived in British territory.〔 The summer monsoon rains of 1897, however, were abundant, as was the following harvest which ended the famine in Autumn 1897. However, the rains, which were particularly heavy in some regions set off a malaria epidemic which killed many people; soon thereafter, an epidemic of the bubonic plague began in the Bombay Presidency, which although not very lethal during the famine year, would, in the next decade, become more virulent and spread to the rest of India.〔 File:GrainFamineMadras.jpg|Grain destined for export stacked in Madras beaches (February 1877) File:Graphic1-1877.JPG|Engraving from ''The Graphic'', October 1877, showing two forsaken children in the Bellary district of the Madras Presidency File:Graphic2-1877.JPG|Engraving from ''The Graphic'', October 1877, showing the plight of animals as well as humans in Bellary district File:Famine in India Natives Waiting for Relief in Bangalore.jpg|People waiting for famine relief in Bangalore From the Illustrated London News (20 October 1877) File:Madras famine 1877.jpg|A contemporary print showing the distribution of relief in Bellary, Madras Presidency. From the Illustrated London News (1877) File:Famine, 1876-78, Bangalore Wellcome M0014873.jpg|Famine stricken people during the famine of 1876-78 in Bangalore 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian famine of 1896–97」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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