"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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Kingsley Davis
Kingsley Davis (August 20, 1908 – February 27, 1997) was an internationally recognized American sociologist and demographer. He was identified by the American Philosophical Society as one of the most outstanding social scientists of the twentieth century, and was a Hoover Institution senior research fellow.
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