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Catalogue Reference:(RGS) S0002005

A group of young children prepare prickly pear, a spiny plant of the cactus family, to use as cattle food during the severe famine in Madras, Tamil Nadu, south India in the late 1870s.

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Another photograph taken during the 1876-1878 famine in Tamil Nadu, south India showing five men wheeling a cart laden with heavy sacks of grain. It's likely that the bullocks who would otherwise be used to pull the cart have already died in the famine.