The Famine and Dearth database contains searchable transcriptions of over 700 multilingual primary sources relating to situations of famine and dearth in early modern India and Britain. The archive contains texts in ten different languages including Persian, Bengali and Hindi as well as English, and offers English translations for the majority of texts. These texts cover a wide range of genres, including chronicle histories, gazetteers, official correspondence, legislation, pamphlets, periodicals, plays, poetry, surveys, and fiction and non-fiction prose.
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Ayesha Mukherjee (PI), Amlan Dasgupta (Co-I) (2014-2016 project); Ayesha Mukherjee (PI), Abhijit Gupta (Co-I), Samantak Das (Co-I), Sujit Kumar Mandal (Co-I) (2019-2021 project)
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