Durga Devi famine


The Durga Devi famine was a very severe and prolonged famine in India which lasted about twelve years between 1396 and 1407, affecting region.

Causes

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

Casualties

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

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 reign, to repopulate villages after 1429.