History of Aurangzib, Based on Original Sources v5.c85.s2.4

v5.c85.s2.4

The labouring population suffered not only from violent capture, forced labour, and starvation, but also from epidemics which were very frequent during these campaigns. Even in the imperial camp, where greater comfort, security and civilisation might have been expected, the annual wastage of the Deccan wars was one lakh of men, and three lakhs of horses, oxen, camels and elephants. [*Storia*, iv. 96.] At the siege of Golkonda (1687) a famine broke out. In Haidarabad city the houses river and plain were filled with the dead.