Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

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Identifikator:: 1794974814

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-182133

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Origin, birthplace, nationality and language of the Canadian people

Place of publication:: Ottawa

Publisher:: Acland

Year of publication:: 1929

Scope:: 224 S.; Diagramme

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Collection:: Economics Books

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THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 145 then, the political and military history of the period does not suggest any serious check on the natural growth of population. The records of famine are undoubtedly incomplete,! but, so far as they go, they disclose no very serious calamity in Northern India during the first half of the century. There had, indeed, been heavy mortality in the year 1596, but the effects of this would have disappeared by 1660. There are indications of scarcity in the Punjab in 1614-15, and again in 1645, and in Oudh in 1650, but I have found no record of serious loss of life; while the calamity of 1630, which fell 50 heavily on Gujarat and the Deccan, did not extend to the North. Rajputana suffered severly in 1648, and Sind in 1658-9, but in both cases the loss was local. The famine of 1660 was severe and widespread in the South, but the only indication of its influence in the North is a statement in a chronicle of the next century that “crowds of people from all parts made their way to the capital.” If “the capital” in this passage denotes Delhi, as is probable but not certain, then we may infer either that the North was affected, or that people came from the affected region to the North in search of food. Between 1660 and 1670 we read of famine again in the South and in Gujarat, but not in the North. It is, I think, quite certain that the population in the former regions must have declined heavily after 1630; but, from the recorded evidence, there is no reason for thinking that there was any serious general decline in the country from the Punjab to Bengal. The evidence regarding epidemic disease is even more scanty than that which refers to famine, and the only point which emerges is that bubonic plague? was present in Northern India during the first half of the century. The Emperor Jahangir tells us that a dreadful epidemic had spread from the Puniab as far as Delhi, and caused great * 1 discussed this subject at some length in Ch. VII of From Akbar to Aurangzeb, where detailed references will be found to the summary given in the text. The Punjab scarcity of 1645, which is not mentioned there, is recorded in Badshahnama, II, 489. ? For plague, see Tuzuk, 162, 225; Badshahnama, I, i. 489, II, 353; Khwafi, i. 755, and ii. 382. - The identity of the disease is usually indicated Dy references to either the presence of huboes, or the effect on rats and mice.

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