Question

What was the reason for influenza and famine in India during 1918?​

Answer 1

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✍️1918 Influenza pandemic in India was the outbreak of an unusually deadly influenza pandemic in India between 1918-1920 as a part of the worldwide Spanish flu pandemic.

✍️It also referred to as the Bombay Influenza or the Bombay Fever in India, the pandemic is believed to have killed up to 14 -17 million people in the country, the most among all countries.

✍️David Arnold (2019) estimates at least 12 million dead, about 5% of the population.

✍️The decade between 1911 and 1921 was the only census period in which India’s population fell, mostly due to devastation of the Spanish flu pandemic.

✍️The death toll in India's British-ruled districts was 13.88 million.