Glimpses of Indian Historical Demography

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Historical demographic studies on India’s population are a rare research enterprise in view of paucity of data. Unlike western populations that are almost wholly Christian with parish registers, India’s teeming millions profess several religious faiths that have no parishes, or parish registers.

Censuses provide demographic data for doing India’s demographic history. India has a history of a century of census taking from 1891 to 2001. The book presents a historical demographic analysis of the major religious groups in India. Wherever possible, the analysis has been supplemented with information from other sources. It is seen that India’s population is undergoing a slow demographic modernization during the course of the 20th century. A few reasons have been advanced to explain the slowness of demographic change in India.

The book will be of great interest to researchers in historical population studies and social change in developing countries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Parameswara Krishnan

Dr. Parameswara Krishnan is Professor Emeritus of Sociology (Demography) at the University of Alberta in Canada. He has been Director of the Population Research Laboratory at the University of Alberta; a Shastri Fellow at Kerala University and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. Professor Krishnan has been a Visiting Fellow, or Professor at the Australian National University Demography Program, Cambridge University, El Colegio De Mexico, Tirupati University and Institute for Social and Economic change. His papers have appeaered in many international and Indian journals. Professor Krishnan is the founder of the journal of Canadian Studies in Canandian Population Society. He is known for his contribution to social science methodology and mathematical demography. He has edited, or co-edited several books in population studies and mathematical sociology.