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4. The Government of Hell
This chapter opens up by narrating the death of nearly 10 million people during the global El Niño droughts during 1896-1902. After the famine of 1878-1879 had ended, the next decade enjoyed ample rainfall and rich harvest throughout the land and was proclaimed to be the Age of Wheat. The years after this great period were marked with severe famine. As the demand for food imports escalated in the Great Britain, many fertile cultivation lands such as the American Great plains, the Canadian Prairie, the Argentine pampas, and India's upper Gangetic plain now became accessible due to the cash flow into the railroads, done by London. Any resistance from the natives were eliminated by the firepower of the British Red coats. The Liverpool Corn Trade Association and the Chicago Board of Trade for Wheat Exchange formed a single world market because of being successful to transform many grasslands into wheat belts.

5. Mystery of the Monsoon
This section of the book gives insight about the causes of the worldwide droughts of the 1870's and the 1890's. There were strong implications that although the natural cause for the drought was for ENSO but the East India Company had heightened the condition as a direct result of their occupation of the land and their actions.

An Imperial Science
As a result of the devastating Indian famines, a young physician named William Roxburgh investigated and got to the the conclusion that because of deforestation and rejecting many people a permanent title to their land only intensified the droughts. Subsequently, the 1880's Famine Commission report by Henry Blanford distinctly mentions that due to the excessive pressure over the Indo-Malayan and Eastern Australian region was at fault for the disruptive droughts. However, the dogma around the fact that climate was the main cause of the droughts were very pertinent according to the words of William Hunter and Norman Lockyer.

Sunspots versus Socialists
Many upcoming scientists by the turn of 1870 were recommending that sunspots had ties with the frequency of cyclones and that of the monsoon season. Afterwards by the year 1878 William Hunter showed a study called "The Cycle of Drought and Famine in Southern India" which indicated in turn that there was a relationship between sunspots and rainfall in Madras. Although they were met with some opposition but in the end everyone in the scientific community were in agreement. On the other hand, SIr Stanley Jevons a contrary Marxist, wrote a paper describing how solar variance can ascertain the price of grain.