A Population History of India : From the First Modern People to the Present Day
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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.
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Table Of Contents
| List of Figures and Maps | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xv |
| A Note on Terms | p. xvii |
| The First Modem People | p. 1 |
| Prehistory and Early History | p. 7 |
| From Ancient Times to the Year 1000 | p. 36 |
| Medieval to Mughal Times: c.1000 to c.1707 | p. 48 |
| Mughal Decline to Early British Rule: c.1707 to c.1821 | p. 76 |
| Company and Crown: c.1821 to c.1871 | p. 94 |
| Famines, Plague, and Influenza: c.1871 to c.1921 | p. 123 |
| Before and After 1947: c.1921 to c.1971 | p. 171 |
| From Anxiety to Unconcern on Population: c.1971 to c.2016 | p. 216 |
| Conclusion | p. 262 |
| The Population Density of Early Cities | p. 277 |
| Demographic Estimates for 1881-1921 | p. 279 |
| Bibliography | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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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. I ...
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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.
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Table Of Contents
| List of Figures and Maps | p. xi |
| List of Tables | p. xiii |
| List of Abbreviations | p. xv |
| A Note on Terms | p. xvii |
| The First Modem People | p. 1 |
| Prehistory and Early History | p. 7 |
| From Ancient Times to the Year 1000 | p. 36 |
| Medieval to Mughal Times: c.1000 to c.1707 | p. 48 |
| Mughal Decline to Early British Rule: c.1707 to c.1821 | p. 76 |
| Company and Crown: c.1821 to c.1871 | p. 94 |
| Famines, Plague, and Influenza: c.1871 to c.1921 | p. 123 |
| Before and After 1947: c.1921 to c.1971 | p. 171 |
| From Anxiety to Unconcern on Population: c.1971 to c.2016 | p. 216 |
| Conclusion | p. 262 |
| The Population Density of Early Cities | p. 277 |
| Demographic Estimates for 1881-1921 | p. 279 |
| Bibliography | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 303 |
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