What were effects of famine of 1888-89 and epidemic of plague 1898 on the ‘ population migration to Bombay ?
Famine in the dry regions of Kutch drove large numbers of people into Bombay in 1888-89. The flood of migrants in some years created panic and alarm in official circles. Worried by the influx of population during plague epidemic of 1898, district authorities sent about 30,000 people back to their places of origin by 1901.
