IOR/L/PJ/3/1088 No.151

The collection contains the following papers:

Report on the Famine of 1860-61 by Col R Baird Smith, On Special Duty, dated 25th May 1861. The following maps accompany the report:

• Map (Chart No.I) showing the route taken through the Famine Tract in the North Western Provinces and Punjab, 1861. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.II) showing the Famine Tract in 1861 with the distribution of the Interior Areas of greatest intensity. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.III) showing the rain fall for an average year as compared with that in 1860-61 throughout the Famine Tract in the North Western Provinces and Punjab. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.IV) showing the prices current of Wheat and Bajra (an inferior grain) in an average year and during the Famine period in 1860-61. The prices are shown according to the weights per Rupee as published in the Allahabad Government Gazette. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)

Correspondence with the Governments of the North Western Provinces and the Punjab on the subject of famine relief measures, and the operation and expenditure of Famine Relief Funds, May to September 1861

Final Report on the Famine of 1860-61 by Col R Baird Smith, On Special Duty, in continuation of his report of the 25th May 1861, dated 14th August 1861. The following maps accompany the report:

• Map (Chart No.V) showing the distribution of Central and District Relief Houses within and around the Famine Tract. Scale: 32 miles to an inch.
• Map (Chart No.VI) showing the distribution of property in land among the different Castes or Tribes in the Famine Tract. Enlarged from Sir Henry Elliot's map in his Supplemental Glossary of Indian Terms. Scale: 16 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.VII) showing the Sub-Divisions of the Famine Tract in the North Western Provinces and Punjab, as extended with reference to the introduction of Perpetual Settlements. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.VIII) showing the limits of the Famine Tract in the North Western Provinces in 1837-38. Scale: 32 miles to One inch. (in colour)
• Map (Chart No.IX) showing the Areas protected from effects of drought in the North Western Provinces and Punjab by existing canals completed or in progress and the Areas which admit of being so protected by new works. Scale: 32 miles = 1 inch. (in colour)

The collection includes a copy of the following Public letters received from India:

• No.33 of 1861, dated 1 June 1861
• No.34 of 1861, dated 3 June 1861
• No.36 of 1861, dated 7 June 1861
• No.57 of 1861, dated 6 August 1861
• No.73 of 1861, dated 28 September 1861
• No.30 of 1861, dated 13 August 1861
• No.75 of 1861, dated 7 October 1861

See also the report by Colonel R Baird Smith, dated 8th May 1861, on the causes of the serious depression of trade adverted to by the Bengal Chamber of Commerce in their Secretary's letter of the 28th January 1861, mistakenly bound with the previous collection, to Despatch No.150 [IOR/L/PJ/3/1088 No.150].