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| | #REDIRECT [[Deccan famine of 1630–1632]] |
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| {{Infobox famine
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| | name = Deccan famine of 1630–32
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| | alt = <!-- Image [[WP:ALT]] -->
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| | country = [[Mughal Empire]] [[Deccan sultanates]], India | |
| | location = [[Deccan Plateau]], [[Khandesh]] and [[Gujarat]]
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| | period = 1630 - 1632
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| | excess_mortality = 7.4 million
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| | from_disease = <!-- Indirect famine deaths from subsequent diseases -->
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| | theory = <!-- Examples: food availability decline (FAD - conventional), failure of exchange entitlements, etc -->
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| | relief = <!-- Examples: 1 million tons of grain, no relief, etc -->
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| | food_situation = <!-- Net food imports, examples: 10 million tons of wheat, can be negative for repressive regimes/genocide cases -->
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| | memorial = <!-- link to the memorial website -->
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| | preceded = Damajipant famine
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| | succeeded = Deccan in 1655, 1682 and 1884
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| The '''Deccan famine of 1630–1632''' was a [[famine]] in the [[Deccan Plateau]], [[Khandesh]] and [[Gujarat]].<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 ... the Deccan famine of 1630–32|doi=10.1257/jel.45.1.5 }}</ref> The famine was the result of three consecutive staple crop failures. The main reasons were climate and plague, leading to intense hunger, disease, and displacement in the region. This famine remains one of the most devastating [[Famine in India|famines]] in the history of India, and was the most serious famine to occur in the [[Mughal Empire]].
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| A Dutch report of the famine in Surat noted that the famine was the result of three consecutive staple crop failures, leading to intense hunger, disease, and displacement in the region. Some also claim that the demands of the army of [[Shah Jahan]] camped at Barhanpur was one of the reasons behind the famine.
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| 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>
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| ==References==
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| * Ó Gráda, Cormac. (2007). "Making Famine History", ''Journal of Economic Literature'', '''65''' (March 2007), pp. 5–38.
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| ==External links==
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| [http://www.vinlandmap.info/india-famine FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, from 1500 to 1767]
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| {{DEFAULTSORT:Deccan Famine of 1630-1632}}
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| [[Category:Famines in India]]
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| [[Category:1630s in India]]
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| [[Category:Mughal Empire]]
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| [[Category:Natural disasters in Maharashtra]]
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| [[Category:17th-century natural disasters]]
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| [[Category:17th century in India]]
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| [[Category:1630 in India]]
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| [[Category:1631 in India]]
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| [[Category:1632 in India]]
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| [[Category:1630 natural disasters]]
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| [[Category:1631 natural disasters]]
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| [[Category:1632 natural disasters]]
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| [[Category:1630s natural disasters]]
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| [[Category:Deccan Plateau]]
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