Demography India

Demography India

India's Demography

Papers presented at a conference, Worcester College, Oxford, Dec. 1982, under the auspices of the British Society for Population Studies.

India's Historical Demography

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 investigate certain large-scale demographic phenomena – among others the experience of bubonic plague, influenza, cholera and famine.