deccan

The eruption of the Deccan Traps may have also played an important part in the mass extinction event.

Gujarat and Deccan Famine (1630–1632): One of the most devastating famines in pre-colonial India occurred during the Mughal era.

Of course there has been 'climate change' and 'global warming' before, caused by things like large volcanic eruptions (deccan traps) or meteorites.

Bhimbetka is declared a world heritage site, and gives a proof of homo erectus with skills in the Deccan area that early in time.

There were several great famines during the Mughal reign in India, for example, Peter Mundy, the English merchant and traveller, describes the great famine of Deccan and Gujrat.

Example: The Deccan Chronicle reported in 2019 that several valuable assets of the Madurai Meenakshi Temple were not properly recorded, resulting in losses and mismanagement.

This article seems to confirm a direct relation between the meteorite impact and the extinction with the deccan traps activity possibly serving as a contributing factor.

[1] Nobody was speculating Al Qaeda links, it was being said either JeM, Deccan Mujahideen or LeT.

Famines preserved only in oral tradition are the Dvadasavarsha Panjam (Twelve-year Famine) of south India and the Durga Devi Famine of the Deccan from 1396 to 1407.

Flowers were supposedly one of the many factors wiping out the dinosaurs (aside from asteroid impacts and Deccan Traps), reducing the food supply for herbivores by outcompeting existing flora.

This is the first I've heard of the Deccan Traps.

Prior to Alvarez, it was a matter of faith that the K-T boundary must have a solely terrestrial explanation, and the Deccan Traps were elevated to the most likely candidate.

I think a competing theory was/is that the mass extinction was caused by volcanism of the Deccan-Traps, briefly mentioned in the abstract “…occurred within the time of Deccan flood basalt volcanism in India”.

Contemporary Dutch records estimate that approximately 4 million people died in Gujarat and neighbourhood (Deccan region) in the ten months ending in October 1631.