1 History & Culture · 1.4.10 Colonial revenue and economy in Andhra

1.4.10.3 Famines and irrigation: the Guntur famine to Cotton's anicuts

Repeated famines in colonial Andhra — above all the Guntur famine of 1832–33 and the Great Famine of 1876–78 — pushed the Madras Government into irrigation: Sir Arthur Cotton's Godavari anicut at Dowleswaram and the Krishna anicut at Vijayawada turned the deltas into rice bowls, while dry Rayalaseema stayed famine-prone.

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Key terms

  • Doji Bara famine 1791-92
  • Guntur famine 1832-33
  • Nandana karuvu
  • Ganjam famine 1865-66
  • Great Famine 1876-78
  • Rayalaseema famines
  • Famine Commission 1880
  • Richard Strachey
  • Famine Code
  • Buckingham Canal
  • Sir Arthur Cotton
  • Dowleswaram anicut
  • Godavari delta
  • Captain Orr
  • Krishna anicut
  • Vijayawada
  • Bezwada
  • Prakasam Barrage
  • Kurnool-Kadapa canal
  • Madras Irrigation Company
  • Tungabhadra

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