[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Dark Ages](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages) › [Travellers (1500–1858)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel) › [Histoire de la dernière révolution des États du Grand Mogol](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier) › [Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable) › 21.1 # Travels in the Mogul Empire (Bernier) 21.1 Travels in the Mogul Empire (Constable) 21.1 - **Language:** English ### [21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.21.1) The sun is so strong and oppressive in the Indies during the whole year, particularly during eight months, that the ground would be completely burnt, and rendered sterile and uninhabitable, if Providence did not kindly provide a remedy, and wisely ordain that in the month of July, when the heat is most intense, rains begin to fall, which continue three successive months. The temperature of the air thus becomes supportable, and the earth is rendered fruitful. These rains are not, however, so exactly regular as to descend undeviatingly on the same day or week. According to the observations I have made in various places, particularly in Dehli where I resided a long time, they are never the same two years together. Sometimes they commence or terminate a fortnight or three weeks sooner or later, and one year they may be more abundant than another. I have even known two entire years pass without scarcely a drop of rain, and the consequences of that extraordinary drought were wide-spreading sickness and famine. It should be observed too that the rainy season is earlier or later, and more or less plentiful, in different countries, in proportion to their proximity or remoteness from one another. In Bengale, for instance, and along the coast of Koromandel, as far as the Island of Ceylon, the rains begin and end a month sooner than toward the coast of Malabar ; - [Previous: 20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.20) - [Next: 21.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.21.2) - [Up: 21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.21.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darkages.travel.bernier~en-constable.21.1) · Pramāṇa