Old Tales Retold with Fresh Comments
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Prices reached famine rates. Rice 9 seers 2 4|7 chittacks the rupee. Salt only the usual Price, 2 annas a seer. The Brahmaputra swollen as never before. Ominous predictions heard everywhere. (Daily Press, 1953). (2) From Indore, dated August 24, 1878. Rainfall abundant but everything sold at exorbitant rates: wheat at 10 seers, coarse rice at 8 seers, better rice at 6 seers, gram at 10 seers and ruhur dal at 3 seers a rupee (DailyPress, 1953).
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