A Journeying Through Famine Inwards India

"All this twenty-four hours our noses were infested as well as our bodyes almost infected amongst a most noysome smell, which later search, wee constitute to come upwards from a nifty pitt, wherein were throwne xxx or forty persons, men, weomen as well as children, quondam as well as younge confuseldy tumbled inwards together without social club or Coveringe" - 1630, Peter Munday, Itinerarium Mundii

In 1631 some 3 1 K m people died of starvation & affliction inwards the Indian patch of Gujarat. This famine began inwards Gujarat later a long drought inwards 1630. In the next year, inwards 1631, crops were attacked yesteryear rats as well as locusts. 1631 likewise saw really heavy rains which led to an outbreak of many H2O borne diseases. It is reported that next these calamitous events the people were as well as hence desperate for nutrient that human bones were footing amongst flour, cannibalism was frequent as well as people fed on corpses.

Peter Munday was an English linguistic communication merchant trader, traveler as well as writer. In 1630 inwards the employ of the East Republic of Republic of India Company Peter Munday traveled from Surat inwards Gujarat to Agra. On this journeying Munday witnessed as well as wrote close the famine as well as its final result on the people. You tin follow Peter Munday's journeying as well as read the entries he made into his manuscript narrative Itinerarium Mundii on the interactive map Famine & Dearth inwards Republic of Republic of India as well as Britain.

You tin follow Peter Munday's journeying to Agra using the colored markers on the map. Each of these markers betoken an entry Munday made into his Itinerarium Mundii. The color of each marking indicates its score on the famine to enough scale. If y'all direct a marking on the map y'all tin read Munday's outset paw concern human relationship of his journeying through Gujarat as well as the famine.

You tin larn to a greater extent than close the Gujarat famine as well as Peter Munday yesteryear clicking on the domicile push on the interactive map.