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Even so, work by Yang and others has proved that senior leaders in Beijing knew of the famine as early as 1958. To distribute resources evenly will only ruin the Great Leap Forward, Mao warned colleagues a year later. When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death.
The Indian famine of 1899-1900, the last of its kind to have happened in India, started primarily because the summer monsoon failed in 1899 across central and western India. In fact, during the famine of 1896-97 as well Central Provinces and Berar had been badly affected.