ABSTRACT
Many people who lived and worked in it will remember how millions of poor people were starved to death, and how the great part of Madras Presidency and the Southern Marathi country were laid waste by the famine of 1876. The last great famine of the Madras Presidency reached its climax in the years 1876-77, but it began at least three years before that time. The Government officials are kind, and are doing what they can to help the poor people at the relief camps and in the Poor Houses. But the means at their disposal make it impossible to meet the demands of the needy ones. The European and Native officers employed to look after the interests of the dying thousands are hard at work, and try to do as much as they can. The wicked are not afraid of the judgment of God, they are sinning away their lives in the midst of the fearful scene of famine.
