Durga Devi famine

The Durga Devi (Goddess)[1] famine was a very severe and prolonged famine in India which lasted about twelve years between 1396 and 1407,[2][3] affecting Deccan region.[4]

Causes

The Durga Devi famine occurred at the beginning of the Little Ice Age during a long and severe Indian summer monsoon.[5] The drought provoking the famine is one of the earliest recorded in India. There was no rain between the Godavari and Krishna rivers for 12 years from 1396 to 1407.[4]

Casualties

It is argued that the famine killed millions of people.[6] The famine killed many thousand people in Maharashtra.[7]

Aftermath

Reports say that when rain finally returned, no crops were sown as a cause of extreme mortality and emigration. It took the direction of Bahmani nobleman Malik-ut-Tujar, one of the chief nobles of the Allaudin Shah Bahmini II of Gulburga reign[8], to repopulate villages after 1429.

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