Of 1876 in contrast to the annual average of 27.6 inches during the previous decade. The Madras Observatory would record only 6.3 inches of precipitation for all The life-giving southwest monsoon had already failed much of southern and central India the previous summer. The British rulers of Madras had every reason to be apprehensive. If it is not, and if the monsoon does not come, there will be an awful famine." "I am afraid that is not the monsoon," said the gentleman to whom the remark was made. Government were returning from their summer sojourn on the hills.
Robert Ellis, C.B., junior member of the Governor's Council, Madras, as a heavy shower of rain fell at Coonoor, on a day towards the end of October 1876, when the members of the Madras "Here's the northeast monsoon at last," said Hon.
The more one hears about this famine, the more one feels that such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before. El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
0 kommentar(er)
