A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present DayOxford University Press, 2018 - 310 pàgines 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 |
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The First Modern People | 1 |
Prehistory and Early History | 7 |
From Ancient Times to the Year 1000 | 36 |
Medieval to Mughal Times c1000 to c1707 | 48 |
Mughal Decline to Early British Rule c1707 to c1821 | 76 |
Company and Crown c1821 to c1871 | 94 |
Famines Plague and Influenza c1871 to c1921 | 123 |
Before and After 1947 c1921 to c1971 | 171 |
From Anxiety to Unconcern on Population c1971 to c2016 | 216 |
Conclusion | 262 |
The Population Density of Early Cities | 277 |
Demographic Estimates for 18811921 | 279 |
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A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day Tim Dyson Previsualització limitada - 2018 |
A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day Tim Dyson Previsualització limitada - 2018 |
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