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⁷¹ Adapted from R.K. Mukerjee, *op. cit.* (n. 9), p. 20. The information in the brackets has been collected from other sources, quoted. But no exhaustive list of famines, floods, pestilences etc. can be prepared on the basis of the meagre information available in the chronicles for the eight centuries of the medieval period including the eighteenth century. But the effect on population by calamities like floods, famines, scarcity of rain, destruction of crops by insects and pests in the twentieth century could give some idea for the medieval times too. M. Azizul Huque has collected data about these from 1915 to 1938, and during these 24 years not a year passed (except three—1917, 24, and 25) when Bengal was not visited by one calamity or another. M. Azizul Huque, *The Man Behind the Plough* (The Book Company, Calcutta, 1939), pp. 20-26.