Monsoon Failure creates Famine In India - 70-year-old Peasants Beg For Food in the streets of the drought belt. At right a child holds a water bowl. for tem the monsoon failed in 1950 and in 1951 also. The failure of the 1952 monsoon has left South and East India in the deadly grip of Famine. Some 10,000,000 people live in the drought belts, the largest of which is in Rayalaseema, an area some 15,000 square miles in extent, in Madras state, bordering on the state of Hyderabad. Communist propagandists there have put the miserable plight of some five million peasants to through use. May 28, 1952. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).