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Food and Population Problems in India

Food and Population Problems in India Footnotes 1 . Kingsley Davis, The Population of India and Pakistan (Princeton, 1951), 27. Quoted in Ira Klein, 'Population and Agriculture in North India 1872–1921', Modern Asian Studies 8, 2 (1974), 191–216. A number of British historians, however, point to excessive population pressure in India which worked as a check to economic growth, and led to excessive poverty. For a discussion of these claims, see Klein, 'Population and Agriculture'. The theoretical part of the British historian's argument is no doubt correct, but in the case of India, while the economy was stagnant and poverty was rampant, the population growth was minimal. 2 . J. Raj, Economic Conflict in North India (Bombay, 1978), 59–60, especially districts of Sultanpur, Bara Banki, Unao, Rae Bareli, etc. See also Klein, 'Population and Agriculture', 201. 3 . Klein, 'Population and Agriculture', 216. 4 . B. M. Bhatia, Famines in India 1860–1965 (Bombay, 1967), VI. 5 . P. Padmanabha, 'The Decisive Decade', Yo Jana, 16–31, May 1981, 4. 6 . Andre Fontaine, 'Population is the Key to India's Survival', The Guardian, 17 April 1983. 7 . Ibid. 8 . Raj, Economic Conflict in North India, 57. 9 . I have studied this aspect for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Politics and History Wiley

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Footnotes 1 . Kingsley Davis, The Population of India and Pakistan (Princeton, 1951), 27. Quoted in Ira Klein, 'Population and Agriculture in North India 1872–1921', Modern Asian Studies 8, 2 (1974), 191–216. A number of British historians, however, point to excessive population pressure in India which worked as a check to economic growth, and led to excessive poverty. For a discussion of these claims, see Klein, 'Population and Agriculture'. The theoretical part of the British historian's argument is no doubt correct, but in the case of India, while the economy was stagnant and poverty was rampant, the population growth was minimal. 2 . J. Raj, Economic Conflict in North India (Bombay, 1978), 59–60, especially districts of Sultanpur, Bara Banki, Unao, Rae Bareli, etc. See also Klein, 'Population and Agriculture', 201. 3 . Klein, 'Population and Agriculture', 216. 4 . B. M. Bhatia, Famines in India 1860–1965 (Bombay, 1967), VI. 5 . P. Padmanabha, 'The Decisive Decade', Yo Jana, 16–31, May 1981, 4. 6 . Andre Fontaine, 'Population is the Key to India's Survival', The Guardian, 17 April 1983. 7 . Ibid. 8 . Raj, Economic Conflict in North India, 57. 9 . I have studied this aspect for

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Published: Aug 1, 1983

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