Format:
1 online resource (329 pages)
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Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9780192564290
Content:
This book presents a history of India's population for the period stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country (very roughly seventy thousand years ago) until the modern day. It draws together archaeology, history, and politics to reveal a surprising and often dramatic story.
Content:
Cover -- A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present Day -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures and Maps -- Figures -- Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- A Note on Terms -- 1: The First Modern People -- Notes -- 2: Prehistory and Early History -- The Indus Valley Civilization -- Settling the Ganges Basin and Beyond -- Linguistic and Genetic Evidence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 3: From Ancient Times to the Year 1000 -- Political Events and Population Changes -- The Size of the Population c.640 CE -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 4: Medieval to Mughal Times: c.1000 to c.1707 -- Political and Military Events -- Population Changes -- The Black Death and India -- Early Europeans -- Famines and Epidemics -- The Size of the Population c.1595 -- The Urban Sector -- Migration and Slaving -- The Muslim Population -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 5: Mughal Decline to Early British Rule: c.1707 to c.1821 -- Political and Military Events -- Famines and Wars -- The Bengal Famine of 1769-70 -- Other Famines -- The Impact of Warfare -- Population Change -- The Urban Sector -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 6: Company and Crown: c.1821 to c.1871 -- Population Growth -- Population Data -- Demographic Characteristics -- Migration -- Famines -- Diseases and Epidemics -- The Urban Sector -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 7: Famines, Plague, and Influenza: c.1871 to c.1921 -- Population Trends -- Famines -- The Famine of 1876‒78 -- The Famines of 1896‒97 and 1899‒1900 -- Plague -- The Influenza of 1918‒19 -- The Urban Sector -- Migration -- Accounting for Mortality Trends -- Conclusion -- Notes -- 8: Before and After 1947: c.1921 to c.1971 -- Population Trends -- The 1920s and 1930s -- The Birth Control Movement -- The 1940s -- The Bengal Famine of 1943-44 -- The Effects of Partition -- The 1950s and 1960s -- Mortality and Health.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780198829058
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dyson, Tim, 1949 - A population history of India Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780198829058
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Indien
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Siedlung
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung
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Geschichte Anfänge-2016
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