you are talking food crisis improvement in british india!!! here is some stat for you 1. There was 3 famine Bengal famine of 1770..Great Famine of 1876–78 and again Bengal famine of 1943. All these was not because of Monsoon..rather because of british india rule..ref Amartya Sen..(This was from one of his masterpiece work for which he was awarded nobel prize in economy)..now will you say he is also a half knowledable person...?