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as they predicted about the famine two years earlier, but no response was given. As a result, the Mizo
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was profound. Over a hundred people starved to death. Estimations say that around two million rats were killed and collected by the locals.
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famine of the 1959, Mizo
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and Inner Line in place. In addition, the district was granted an
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