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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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