Plague

An Irish teacher, after a meeting with Swami Vivekananda, donned the title of Sister Nivedita and spent her life caring for Calcutta’s poor during the plague and famine, and joined India in its freedom struggle.

During a plague in the late 18th century, a Thakur family from Unnao, Uttar Pradesh migrated to Dharward, Karnataka and started making pedhas to earn a living.

"Two kinds of the disease, and both deadly—Natives dying by Hundreds of Hunger—Overseers stealing the supplies."