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Population Redistribution and Settlement Change in South Asia: A Historical Evaluation

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Population Redistribution and Development in South Asia

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An overall review of existing literature is followed by a discussion of major and minor population shifts in South Asia in different historical periods: pre-British, British and post-Independence. The second part of the chapter deals with general patterns of population redistribution in each country of the region.

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    K. Maudood Elahi Ph. D. (Associate Professor) & Sabiha Sultana (Assistant Professor)

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Elahi, K.M., Sultana, S. (1985). Population Redistribution and Settlement Change in South Asia: A Historical Evaluation. In: Kosiński, L.A., Elahi, K.M. (eds) Population Redistribution and Development in South Asia. GeoJournal Library, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5309-3_2

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