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 LUC 327 Statement showing the price of grain at Lucknow from the year 1835 to 1870. Year. Arhar. Barley. Peas, Whent Remarks. Serg. Sers, Sers. Sers. bra 59 823 46 48 19 441 473 41 34 293 29) 213 271 21 27 28 204 161 PP 21% 960 1852 1853 1854 1885 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1888 1869 1870 423 35 30 291 241 293 29 421 281 491 34) 29 181 164 24 411 26 175 28 27 263 293 40 29 48) 37 293 41. ec E na 171 214 28 211 82 21 20 13 133 21 203 121 144 28) 47 331 294 16 19} 31 45! 241 14 20 30 401 25 36} . > 40 Average for 10 years from 1841 to 1860 28 333 28 231 Average for 18 years from 1851 to 1860 33,4 36% 328 Average for 10 years from 1967 to 1870 28 298 2818 1920 Average for 15 years from 1841 to 1855 ... 361 24 25 Average for 151 ycars from 1856 to 1878 ... 293 40 Scarcities and Famines.-On this subject little can be added to the information contained under the district articles of Bahraich and Fyzabad. The famines of 1769, 1784-86, 1837, and the scarcities of 1861, 1865-66, 1869, and 1873, were all felt in Lucknow. They were all caused by drought; prices rose to 9_sers for wheat in 1869, to 12 sers in 1866, while maize and gram in July-August were at 12 and 13 sers for the rupee during both years. of some kind were always to be had at 16 to 18 sers. In November-December, 1873, cheaper grains The subject of famine prices is surrounded with great obscurity, and annual average price rates are of no use. If the monthly rates are given for each grain, and those are only used for striking averages which be- long to a recent harvest and the same one, the rise of prices may be traced with tolerable correctness. The following account of Lucknow famines is taken from official sources, and particularly with reference to that of 1784, it rather under-estimates the real extent of the calamity
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