India's Historical Demography

When this book was originally published in 1989 here had been virtually no studies of the country's historical demography.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

1. Indian Historical Demography: Developments and Prospects 2. Deserted Villages and Depopulation in Rural Tamil Nadu c.1780-1830 3. The Mechanics of Demographic and Economic Growth in Uttar Pradesh: 1800-1900 4. Mortality and Fertility in India, 1881-1961: A Reassessment 5. Mortality, Fertility and the Status of Women in India 1881-1931 6. The Historical Demography of Berar, 1881-1980 7. Population Dynamics of Famine in Nineteenth Century Punjab, 1896-7 and 1899-1900 8. Influenza in India During 1918-19 9. Cholera Mortality in British India, 1817-1947 10. On the Comparative Historical Perspective: India, Europe, the Far East .