An Essay on the Economic Causes of Famines in India: And Suggestions to Prevent their Frequent Recurrence Being the Biresvar Mitter Prize Essap for 1905 - Paperback

About The Book: This Book contain this essay examines the economic causes of famines in India and provides suggestions to prevent their frequent occurrence. The Punjab Act serves as a model to address the social and political danger of money-lender expropriation of the peasantry, and it is hoped that other provinces will adopt it in the interests of the peasantry. Famines are a crucial and contentious issue in Indian administration and economics, having played a more tragic role in the Empire's history than great wars, revolutions, or pestilences. To fully grasp this subject, it is essential to provide a brief history of famines in the past. The East India Company witnessed twelve famines and four severe scarcities during its ninety years of administration, while the Crown has witnessed ten famines and two severe scarcities during the fifty years of Empire rule that followed. About The Author: Satishchandra Ray (1888-1960) educationist, Vaishvavacharya and author. He was born on 24 May 1888 in a zamindar family at village Jalsuka in Ajmiriganj upazila of Habiganj district. Thereafter he got admitted to the Presidency College. In recognition of his merit as a student, he was awarded many prizes including Jotishchandra prize, Girish Memorial prize and Sir Andrew Frezer Gold Medal. In 1910 he graduated from Presidency College with honours in philosophy, standing first class first and winning a postgraduate scholarship and P. S. Smith prize. He then went to England for higher studies at London University and from there he obtained MA degree in philosophy in 1914. He then began research in Indian philosophy under orientalists H Oldenburg and P Dawson but as the First World War broke out he returned to India interrupting his research. Many of his essays were published in the Indian Messenger, Modern Review, Journal of the Dept of Letters of the University of Calcutta and journals like Tattakaumudi.