"So in India some three to seven thousand years ago there were peoples possessing a technology sufficiently advanced to support a dense population."
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Kingsley Davis, The Population of India and Pakistan (Princeton : New Jersey, 1951), quoted in K.S. Lal , Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (1973) p 26-27
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