Guntur famine of 1832

Guntur famine of 1832 డొక్కల కరువు
Country	India
Location	Guntur, Madras Presidency
Period	1832 - 1833
Excess mortality	150,000
Death rate	33%
Observations	policy failure, drought, back-to-back poor harvests
Impact on demographics	population declined by 33% due to mortality
Consequences	Dowleswaram Barrage built
Preceded by	1812-13 famine in western India
Succeeded by	Orissa famine of 1866

Guntur famine also known as known locally as Dokkala Karuvu (only ribs are seen without any flesh) or Nandana karuvu, pedda karuvu, Dhatu karuvu, Valasa Karuvu, Musti karuvu, Dobba Karuvu. This has occurred in Madras Presidency during 1832–1833 followed crop failure as well as excessive and uncertain levels of taxation on peasants by British East India Company.

Deaths

This famine has killed a third of the population 150,000 of 500,000 of starvation, also 74,000 bullocks, 159,000 milk cattle, and 300,000 sheep and goats. The loss of revenue occasioned to Government during the following 15 years exceeded two and a half millions Pound sterling The famine of 1833 extended southwards to Madras.

See also

• Bengal famine of 1943
• Famine in India