Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest Times to the Present

Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest Times to the Present Book Description

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This book focuses on various aspects of the population of South Asia over the past twenty-five centuries. An introduction highlights the book's points of contact with the debates in the population history of Asia, Europe and the Americas. This leads into a major chapter on the population of South Asia from 200 BC to 1900 AD. Its importance may be gauged by the fact that very few scholars have ever discussed the period before 1800 AD, and no one has produced an empirically defensible estimate for the population earlier than 1600. A rare document on vaccination is translated for the first time and used to illustrate the interaction of cultural codes and medical techniques. The book includes a compact survey of the evolution of environmental hygiene in India through the twentieth century.

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