Appointment of Commission, correspondence regarding; Questions put to officers; Famine of 1868 – Resolution stating general course to be pursued – Memorandum of measures to be adopted in time of famine; Scarcity in Bengal, 1873-74 – Resolution and review; Selected evidence – General condition of ...
Appendix IV. – Chapter II. Relief during the Earliest Stages. Chapter III. Famine Relief. Chapter IV. Famine Prevention – Preparation of Schemes of Work (C.3086 IV)
Appendix III. – Chapter I. Evidence in reply to inquiries (C.3086 III)
Scope & Content:
Rainfall; Past famines; Agricultural statistics; Protection from drought; Staple food grains; manure and rotation of crops; Agricultural improvement; Population engaged in agriculture; Daily life and circumstances of cultivators; Systems of land tenure; Improvements by land owners; Law of improve...
Appendix I. Condition of the Country and People of India, Miscellaneous Papers (C.3086 I)
Scope & Content:
Physical causes of Indian famines; Rainfall (Blanford); Preparation of Agricultural statistics Elliott); Cycle of sun-spots and of rainfall (J. Norman Lockyer); Use of carrots, &c., in time of scarcity Buck); Agricultural training – Resolution 4 February 1879 – Notes (Tupper, Buck, Ecole Math...