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This book focuses on various aspects of the population of South Asia over the past 25 centuries. An introduction highlights debates in the population history of Asia, Europe and the Americas. This leads into a chapter on the population of South Asia from 200 BC to 1900 AD. Later chapters focus on specific aspects of the interaction between demography, climate, health, medicine and culture. The book also includes a compact survey of the evolution of environmental hygiene in India through the 20th century.