A Population History of India: From the First Modern People to the Present DayA 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 seventy thousand 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 book considers the