Note 175 — Chapter IV · AN INDIAN REFORMER (1874–1879)
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The India Office gave 1,250,000 as the total of deaths in the Famine. Mr. Caird, after investigating the question in India, gave 4,050,000 as his estimate. Miss Nightingale's was 5 to 6 millions. “I begin to think now,” wrote Sir Louis Mallet (March 10, 1879) when Mr. Caird's estimate was made, “that your ‘Shriek'’ was a better expression of the truth than any other utterance.”