Famine and Dearth in India and Britain 1550-1800. Connected Cultural History of Food Security
Completion requirements
The Famine and Dearth database contains searchable transcriptions of over 700 multilingual primary sources relating to situations of famine and dearth in early modern India and Britain.The archive contains texts in ten different languages including Persian, Bengali and Hindi as well as English, and offers English translations for the majority of texts. These texts cover a wide range of genres, including chronicle histories, gazetteers, official correspondence, legislation, pamphlets, periodicals, plays, poetry, surveys, and fiction and non-fiction prose. The database has been published as part of the AHRC-funded project Famine and Dearth in India and Britain, 1550-1800.
Click on Famine and Dearth in India and Britain 1550-1800. Connected Cultural History of Food Security to open the resource.