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Historical Demography and Agrarian Regimes : Understanding Southern Indian Fertility, 1881-1981

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Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd
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Descripción Hardcover. Condición: New. tables, figs Ilustrador. Contents Foreword by Tim Dyson Acknowledgements1 Introduction 2 Making Sense of Colonial Artefacts Database and Correction Procedures 3 Contexts of Demographic Change 4 Demographic Trends 5 Determinants of Fertility Change in Southern India 6 Conclusion Glossary Bibliography IndexThis book situated at the interface of history and demography reconstructs demographic changes in southern India from 1881 to 1981 It measures and maps fertility changes keeping in mind the trends in the present the concerns of the past processes and trajectories and the spaces within which changes have taken place Population and fertility change is thus analysed beyond the narrow confines of purely demographic variables with crucial emphasis on concrete historical contexts The work also provides for the first time data on mortality fertility and nuptiality at the district level  A pioneering study it critically reviews the historiography on demography in particular fertility change and provides a detailed annual series of corrected population statistics for a full century Applying conventional methodology to hitherto underutilised registration data the author shows the dynamic trends in demographic change and their links to the larger changes in the political and economic spheres Further he identifies key determinants of fertility by analysing the interconnections between different demographic variablesFor the first time since Kingsley Davis seminal work on the historical demography of the subcontinent The Population of India and Pakistan 1952 this study comes as an invaluable reference for students and scholars of history demography and population studies 265 pp. Nº de ref. del artículo: 90882

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