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| name = Deccan famine of 1630–1632<br />
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| country = [[Mughal Empire]] [[Deccan sultanates]], India<br />
| location = [[Deccan Plateau]], [[Khandesh]] and [[Gujarat]]<br />
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| period = 1630 - 1632<br />
| excess_mortality = 7.4 million<br />
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| preceded = Damajipant famine<br />
| succeeded = Deccan in 1655, 1682 and 1884<br />
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The '''Deccan famine of 1630–1632''' was a [[famine]] associated with a back-to-back crop failure.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ó Gráda |first1=Cormac |author-link=Cormac Ó Gráda |date=March 2007 |title=Making Famine History |journal=Journal of Economic Literature |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=5–38 |jstor=27646746 |quote=Well-known famines associated with back-to-back harvest failures include&nbsp;... the Deccan famine of 1630–32|doi=10.1257/jel.45.1.5 |hdl=10197/492 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> The famine happened during the reign of Mughal Emperor [[Shah Jahan]].<ref> https://www.google.co.in/books/edition/Famines_in_India/vY4FW4tyXdMC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=shah+jahan+famine+-wikipedia&pg=PA85&printsec=frontcover </ref> The famine was the result of three consecutive staple crop failures.{{citation needed|date = July 2021}} The main reasons were climate and plague, leading to intense hunger, disease, and displacement in the region.{{citation needed|date = July 2021}} About three million people died in Gujarat in the ten months ending in October 1631 while another million died around Ahmednagar. The Dutch report gives an overall death toll of 7.4 million by late 1631, which might be for the whole region.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.3366/anh.2017.0422|title=A famine in Surat in 1631 and Dodos on Mauritius: A long lost manuscript rediscovered|journal=Archives of Natural History|volume=44|pages=134|year=2017|last1=Winters|first1=R.|last2=Hume|first2=J. P.|last3=Leenstra|first3=M.}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[Bihar famine of 1966–1967]]<br />
*[[Famine in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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* Ó Gráda, Cormac. (2007). "Making Famine History", ''Journal of Economic Literature'', '''65''' (March 2007), pp.&nbsp;5–38.<br />
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==External links==<br />
[http://www.vinlandmap.info/india-famine FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, from 1500 to 1767]<br />
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