THE GREAT ODISHA FAMINE (NA'ANKA DURBHIKSHYA) By Anil Dhir & Ramesh Chandra Mohapatra [Hardcover]

‘Na’Anka Durbhikshya’ or the Orissa famine of 1866 killed over a million people in eastern India. However, not much is known about this famine and it also finds no mention in even the densest tomes on Indian history. “The famine was not an accident of nature. It was not providence; rather it was a series of mistakes. For many decades after the Great Famine, it was simply a dark and even humiliating experience which the survivors, and the survivors of the survivors, had little wish to recall, the anguish of a past in which men and women barely survived:- Anil Dhir,