[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935) › c6.s3.t2.2 # Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s3.t2.2 Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c6.s3.t2.2 - **Language:** English ### [c6.s3.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2.2) Let us begin with famine prices. Under Jalal-ud-din Khalji when there was a famine, corn was sold at one Jital per seer.¹ Under Muhammad Tughluq, in exceptionally severe conditions, the price of corn rose to 16 and 17 Jitals per seer.² As a result, people began to die of starvation.² Similarly when Firuz Tughluq attacked Sind and scarcity followed as a result, the price of corn rose to 2 and 3 Tankas per maund (or 3.2 and 4.8 Jitals respectively per seer).³ On his subsequent attack on the same province the corn rose to 8 and 10 Jitals per 5 seers and the pulses to 4 and 5 Tankas per maund (or 6.4 and 8 Jitals per seer respectively).¹ - [Previous: c6.s3.t2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2.1) - [Next: c6.s3.t2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2.3) - [Up: c6.s3.t2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c6.s3.t2.2) · Pramāṇa