. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Indian Jab. India CHAPTER VIIINDIA SINCE THE MUTINY [185S-1904 ] Lord Canning left India in March, 1862, and died before he had been amonth in England. His successor. Lord Elgin, lived only till November,1863, when he too fell a victim to the excessive work of the governor-general-ship, dying at the Himalayan station of Dharmsala, where he lies was succeeded by Sir John Lawrence [afterwards Lord Lawr
. The historians' history of the world; a comprehensive narrative of the rise and development of nations as recorded by over two thousand of the great writers of all ages: . Indian Jab. India CHAPTER VIIINDIA SINCE THE MUTINY [185S-1904 ] Lord Canning left India in March, 1862, and died before he had been amonth in England. His successor. Lord Elgin, lived only till November,1863, when he too fell a victim to the excessive work of the governor-general-ship, dying at the Himalayan station of Dharmsala, where he lies was succeeded by Sir John Lawrence [afterwards Lord Lawrence], thesaviour of the Punjab. The chief incidents of his administration were theBhutan War and the terrible Orissa famine. The drought of 1865 had caused a dearth in 1866. Unforeseen by thelieutenant-governor of Bengal, it could not be met with imported supplies,and before the following rainy season brought relief a million souls had diedof hunger or consequent disease, out of a province containing a population ofonly four millions. Lord Napier saved Madras from a similar calamity by hisforesight, and a year later the sufferings from a drought in Mysore were con-siderably instigated by the
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