ABSTRACT
This chapter implies the lack of sufficient response from Lawrence (the Viceroy of India) and Beadon (Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal) to the Orissa Famine of 1865–1866 coming from the perspective of the local Anglo-Indians in India. It points up the primary need for rice rather than money, and its somewhat desperate tone implies the inefficiency of a government that depended on last-minute charitable offerings to fill the gap left by its own laissez-faire approach to the calamity. ‘The people from the famine-stricken districts of Bengal are flocking into Calcutta. Seventeen thousand of the sufferers are receiving private relief; twelve thousand are houseless; and still more continue to arrive. The sickness that prevails among them is dreadful, and the deaths are numerous.
