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{{Infobox famine
| name             = Guntur famine of 1832
| native_name      = డొక్కల కరువు| image            = <!-- Image filename  -->
| alt              = <!-- Image [[WP:ALT]] -->
| caption          = <!-- Image caption -->
| country          = India
| location         = [[Guntur]], [[Madras Presidency]]
| coordinates      = <!-- (use {{coord}}) -->
| period           = 1832 - 1833
| excess_mortality = 150,000
| from_disease     = <!-- Indirect famine deaths from subsequent diseases -->
| total_deaths     = <!-- Total deaths -->
| death_rate       = 33%
| refugees         = <!-- Refugees -->
| observations     = policy failure, drought, back-to-back poor harvests
| theory           = <!-- Examples: food availability decline (FAD - conventional), failure of exchange entitlements, etc -->
| relief           = <!-- Examples: 1 million tons of grain, no relief, etc -->
| food_situation   = <!-- Net food imports, examples: 10 million tons of wheat, can be negative for repressive regimes/genocide cases -->
| demographics     = population declined by 33% due to mortality
| consequences     = [[Dowleswaram Barrage]] built
| memorial         = <!-- link to the memorial website -->
| preceded         = 1812-13 famine in western India
| succeeded        = [[Orissa famine of 1866]]
}}
'''Guntur famine''' also known as known locally as ''Dokkala Karuvu'' (only ribs are seen without any flesh) or ''Nandana karuvu'',  ''pedda karuvu'', ''Dhatu karuvu'', ''Valasa Karuvu'', ''Musti karuvu'', ''Dobba Karuvu''. This has occurred in [[Madras Presidency]] during 1832–1833 followed crop failure as well as excessive and uncertain levels of taxation on peasants by British [[East India Company]].<ref name="pp1">{{cite web |title=Were Indian Famines 'Natural' Or 'Manmade'? - LSE |url=https://www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-History/Assets/Documents/WorkingPapers/Economic-History/2016/WP243.pdf |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref>

==Deaths==
This [[famine]] has killed a third of the population 150,000 of 500,000 of [[starvation]], also 74,000 bullocks, 159,000 milk cattle, and 300,000 sheep and goats. The loss of revenue occasioned to Government during the following 15 years exceeded two and a half millions [[Pound sterling]]
The famine of 1833 extended southwards to [[Madras]].<ref name="gu1">{{cite web |title=Famines / by Edward Balfour (1885) |url=http://www.payer.de/quellenkunde/quellen057.htm |website=www.payer.de |access-date=16 December 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Bengal famine of 1943]]
* [[Famine in India]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{India-hist-stub}}

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