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The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society
What are the chief characteristics of Malthusian theory of population growth?
(i) Human population and means of subsistence tend to grow.
(ii) Human population tends to grow much faster rate than means of subsistance (i.e food, clothing and other agro-products).
(iii) As growth of agricultural products is lower, it is surpassed by population growth besetting poverty.
(iv) Control on the growth of population is must for bringing in prosperity.
(v) The positive checks (i.e famine, pestilence, epidemics) restore the balance between food supply and faster increase in population.
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What do you understand by demography?
How many varieties the Demography has?
What are the fields of students in formal and social demographies?
What processes of counting or enumeration are used in demographic studies?
Derive the origin of demography in the past as an important field to sociology.
When did demography acquire its modern form?
During which time-period census began in India?
From which year decennial censuses are being conducted in a regular manner in India?
For what purposes the importance of demographic data is much greater?
What does Emile Durkheim state in a report after survey of different countries in the world?
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