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William and Carrie Bruere became missionaries in India, aiding famine-stricken children and establishing orphanages amid dire ...

American missionaries, in the hope of securing funds in India for feeding the hungry, portrayed the country as replete with evangelical opportunities and used famine relief efforts to consolidate thei ...

Sadly, not a single company from India is in the same league. That’s because India’s crafts, from Kerala’s wood carvings to ...

Famine had long been a part of life in Bengal, but the one that began in the late 1760’s was turned into a full blown humanitarian disaster by the East India Company. It’s hard to come to ...

The Bengal famine of 1770 killed an estimated 10 million people as a result of a huge crop shortage. Several other severe famines hit India throughout the 1800s. As a result, the opportunity to ...

Together, India and Pakistan possess 2% of the ... hotspots would lose the ability to grow crops, triggering a global famine. "It would be instant climate change," Alan Robock, an author of ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Ayalon, Yaron. Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes. New York ...