FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
1590 scarcity: Sukkur, Sindh | |
Documented causes: "displeasure of heaven" | |
Documented effects: official revenue shortfall |
Mahomed Masoom, "A History of Sind, embracing the period from A.D. 710 to A.D. 1590" (trans., 1855) |
p152: [Sadik Khan becomes governor of Bukkur for the second time, 998 AH (1590 CE)] "Khwaja Mahomed Munsoom was Mahomed Sadik's Vukeel. His conduct was good; he was capable of managing great and small affairs. The Bukkur people, being happy, began cultivating, but from the displeasure of heaven, the Rubee crop of that year was destroyed; every thing became scarce, and Mahomed Sadik Khan made no collections." [If the name sounds slightly familiar, see here!] |