The Kiplings and India: A Collection of Writings from British India, 1870-1900

Sir Richard Temple

Sir Richard Temple was a British politician and administrator in British India. In the 1870s, he was appointed by the Viceroy to take charge of Famine relief efforts in southern India. His austere policies are widely thought to have contributed to the widespread loss of life in the Madras famine of 1875-77.