 For a long time dog's flesh was sold for goat's flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed with flour and sold. When this was discovered, the sellers were brought to justice. Destitution at length reached such a pitch that men began to devour...  Indian Journal of Economics - Page 1671919Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1877 - 598 pages
...present year also there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhin and Gujarat. The inhabitants of these two countries...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. * * * The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed... | |
 | Hyderabad (India : State) - 1884 - 802 pages
...contentment walked about only in search of 1MOsustenance. For a long time dogs' flesh was sold for goats' flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. By order of the Emperor, soup kitchens were established in... | |
 | James Dunning Baker Gribble - Deccan (India) - 1896 - 436 pages
...length arrived at such a pitch that men began to devour each other, and the flesh of a son was prefered to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of production." During this time Futteh Khan had been in confinement, but through... | |
 | Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson - India - 1907 - 442 pages
...each other and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The multitude of those who died blocked the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. The emperor, in his gracious kindness and bounty, directed... | |
 | William Foster - East Indies - 1910 - 492 pages
...Indian writer, the author of the Bddshahnama (Elliot and Dowson's History of India, vol. vii, p. 24) : ' Life was offered for a loaf, but none would buy ;...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.'1 1 Equally terrible accounts of the effects of the famine... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 578 pages
...Hindostan, in. 141 — 142. 19. Famine in the Dakhan and Gujarat. During the past year [1629 — 1630] no rain had fallen in the territories of the Balaghat,...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. ...The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 608 pages
...Shah Jahan Nama.) Dow, History of Hindostan, 1n. 141 — 142. 19. Famine in the Dakhan and Gujarat. there had been a deficiency in the bordering countries,...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness — The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed... | |
 | Peter Mundy - Voyages and travels - 1914 - 644 pages
...deficiency in the bordering countries, and a total want in the Dakhan and Gujarat. The inhabitants of thtse two countries were reduced to the direst extremity....which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness — The Emperor in his gracious kindness and bounty directed... | |
 | Sir Theodore Morison - Famines - 1916 - 270 pages
...contentment walked about only in search of sustenance. For a long time dogs' flesh was sold for goats' flesh, and the pounded bones of the dead were mixed...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness. By order of the Emperor, soup kitchens were established in... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...other, and the flesh of a son was preferred to his love. The numbers of the dying caused obstructions on the roads, and every man whose dire sufferings did...which had been famous for their fertility and plenty now retained no trace of productiveness.' i It is impossible to reconcile the measurement and cost... | |
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