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

ISBN-13: 9781032244761 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str.

Tim Dyson

Opis

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

Recenzje

‘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.

Spis treści

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 .

O autorze

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 theUnited Nations Commission on Population and Development in New York.