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FAMINES IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT, 1500 to 1767
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1590 scarcity: Sukkur, Sindh1590 map
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!]
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