North-Western Provinces and Oudh [Editor]: Resolution on the administration of famine relief in the North-Western provinces and Oudh during 1896 and 1897 (Allahabad, 1897)

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might be one million, or it might even be nearly two millions
of souls. The least sanguine estimate placed the maximum
number that would require relief for one day at 335 millions:
while even the most sanguine estimate did not place this
number at less than two-thirds of that appalling total. The
numbers that actually came on relief were 284 millions,
exclusive of 30 millions more relieved from the Indian
Charitable Relief Rund.