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A Population History of India

From the First Modern People to the Present Day

Tim Dyson author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Published:3rd Oct '18

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A Population History of India provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly seventy thousand years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during which the population grew from just a handful of people to reach almost 1.4 billion, and a time when the fact of death had a huge influence on the nature of life. This book considers the millennia that were characterized by hunting and gathering, the Indus valley civilization, the opening-up of the Ganges river basin, and the eras of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, British colonial rule, and India since independence. By observing India through a demographic lens, A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day addresses mortality, fertility, the size of cities, patterns of migration, and the multitude of famines, epidemics, invasions, wars, and other events that affected the population. It draws together research from archaeology, cultural studies, economics, epidemiology, linguistics, history, and politics to understand the likely trajectory of India's population in comparison to the trends that applied to Europe and China, and to reveal a surprising and dramatic story.

This book accomplishes what it set out to do-be a description of size and characteristics of India's population through the broad sweep of history-very well. It is likely to become a required reading for all demographers interested in India. * SONALDE DESAI *

ISBN: 9780198829058

Dimensions: 240mm x 162mm x 22mm

Weight: 616g

330 pages