Born Then1630–1632
Life during the Deccan famine of 1630–1632
Be born in a place it hit, a few years before it began, and see what it did to five ordinary lives.
What it meant for ordinary people
Failed monsoons in 1630 and after, made worse by war in the Deccan, caused a huge famine in Gujarat and the Deccan under Shah Jahan. Contemporary European and Mughal accounts describe empty towns and roads full of the dead. The emperor opened soup kitchens and remitted some tax.
Deaths: about 7.4 million, chiefly in Gujarat and the Deccan; contemporary estimates.
How hard it hits each person in the game (risk of death, of being conscripted, of leaving) comes from scholarly estimates.
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