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Notes
Prologue
1
Churchill,
The Second World War: The Hinge of Fate
, 204. See also chapter 12 of the present volume for a discussion of the famine mortality.
2
Clive, “Speech in Commons on India, 1772.”
3
Bernier,
Travels in the Mogul Empire
, 437–438, 442; Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 177–178.
4
Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 184; Bernier,
Travels in the Mogul Empire
, 438–439.
5
Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 183, 187; Sinha,
The Economic History of Bengal
, Vol. I, 4, and Vol. II, 111–113; Sen,
Economics of Revenue Maximization in Bengal
, 300–302; quoted in Chowdhury-Zilly,
The Vagrant Peasant
, 11–12.
6
Dirks,
The Scandal of Empire
, 39.
7
Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 123–124; Dutt,
The Economic History of India,
Vol. I, 21.
8
Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 133; James,
Raj
, 40; quoted in Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 28.
9
Majumdar,
History of Mediaeval Bengal
, 138–142; quoted in Dutt,
Indian Trade
, 10.
10
Dutt,
Indian Trade
, 16, 20; Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 21; James,
Raj
, 42.
11
Dirks,
The Scandal of Empire
, 53; James,
Raj
, 50; Sur,
Chiattorer Monnontar
,11; quoted in Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 18.
12
Metcalf and Metcalf,
A Concise History of India
, 51, 53; Hunter,
The Annals of Rural Bengal
, 304; Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 31.
13
Hunter,
The Annals of Rural Bengal
, 306.
14
Bose,
Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
, 18.
15
Hunter,
The Annals of Rural Bengal
, 26; Kumar and Raychaudhuri,
The Cambridge Economic History of India
, Vol. II, 299.
16
Chaudhuri,
Cartier
, 51–53; quoted in Ghosh,
Famines in Bengal
, 26.
17
Chaudhuri,
Cartier
, 62; Sur,
Chiattorer Monnontar
, 24.
18
Quoted in Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 30; quoted in Sur, “The Bihar Famine of 1770”; quoted in Hunter,
The Annals of Rural Bengal
, 37, 381. At the time, one sterling pound equaled about ten rupees.
19
Hunter,
The Annals of Rural Bengal
, 63–64.
21
Sinha,
The Economic History of Bengal
, Vol. II, 57; quoted in Chaudhuri,
Cartier
, 44.
22
Quoted in Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 32; James,
Raj
, 49–51; Dirks,
The Scandal of Empire
, 48.
23
Dirks,
The Scandal of Empire
, 59; Sinha,
The Economic History of Bengal
, Vol. II, 276–284; Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 48–50.
24
Dirks,
The Scandal of Empire
, 111, 85.
25
Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 61–62; Metcalf and Metcalf,
A Concise History of India
, 70–71. At the time, the region that came to be called the North West Frontier Province belonged to Afghanistan.
26
Dutt,
The Economic History of India
, Vol. I, 245; quoted in Nash,
The Great Famine and Its Causes
, 242.
27
Several of the Madras famines lasted two years or longer, so that different sources give slightly different dates for their occurrence. See Digby,
“Prosperous” British India
, 125–127; Greenough,
Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal
, 281–283; and Mill,
The History of British India
, 241–243.
28
Mill,
The History of British India
, 245, 326.
29
Metcalf and Metcalf,
A Concise History of India
, 57.
30
Mill,
The History of British India
, 247. Mill was not the first to find Indians unmanly, however; see Orme, “On the Effeminacy of the Inhabitants of Indostan,” in
Historical Fragments of the Mogul Empire
, 455–472.
31
Jennings,
Speeches of the Right Honourable Lord Randolph Churchill
, Vol. 1, 212.
32
Chandra et al.,
India’s Struggle for Independence
, 43.