Mrtfalls’s Reviews > Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World > Status Update

- Famine deaths 1876-1900 was between 31.7-61.3 million worldwide, in India between 12.2-29.3 million.
- Due to failing monsoon and failure of relief
- Failure of monsoons and adequate rainfall in India, Korea, Brazil, Russia, Ethiopia and Sudan.
- Besides starvation millions died to malaria, plague, dysentery, smallpox, cholera
- These events neglected by historians e.g Hobsbawm and Landes