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India's Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society book cover

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India's Historical Demography Studies in Famine, Disease and Society

By Tim Dyson Copyright 1989
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge
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When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country’s historical demography. This volume was significant for 3 reasons: it contributed greatly to the knowledge of India’s population history; it had major implications for the work of social and economic historians of India; and lastly the Indian context provides an excellent laboratory in which to... Read more

1. Indian Historical Demography: Developments and Prospects Tim Dyson 2. Deserted Villages and Depopulation in Rural Tamil Nadu c.1780-1830 Roland Lardinois 3. The Mechanics of Demographic and Economic Growth in Uttar Pradesh: 1800-1900 Simon Commander 4. Mortality and Fertility in India, 1881-1961: A Reassessment P. N. Mari Bhat 5. Mortality, Fertility and the Status of Women in India 1881-1931 Alice W. Clark 6. The Historical Demography of Berar, 1881-1980 Tim Dyson 7. Population Dynamics of Famine in Nineteenth Century Punjab, 1896-7 and 1899-1900 Deborah Guz 8. Influenza in India During 1918-19 Ian D. Mills 9. Cholera Mortality in British India, 1817-1947 David Arnold 10. On the Comparative Historical Perspective: India, Europe, the Far East Nigel Crook

Biography

Tim Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Population Studies at the LSE. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2001 and in 2015 delivered the keynote address at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development in New York.

‘This important and illuminating volume opens up the demographic history of India in new and revealing ways.’ Hilary Standing, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.

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