A population history of India : from the first modern people to the present day /
Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)Content type:- text
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- 9780191867484 (ebook) :
- 304.60954 23
- HB3639
This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'A Population History of India' provides an account of the size and characteristics of India's population stretching from when hunter-gatherer homo sapiens first arrived in the country - very roughly 70,000 years ago - until the modern day. It is a period during which the population grew from just a handful of people to reach almost 1.4 billion, and a time when the fact of death had a huge influence on the nature of life. This text considers the millennia that were characterized by hunting and gathering, the Indus valley civilization, the opening-up of the Ganges river basin, and the eras of the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, British colonial rule, and India since independence.
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