Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD)
School of Social Sciences (SSS)
a lecture on
On writing a population history of India
by
Tim Dyson
London School of Economics
Room No. 126, Moonis Raza Committee Room, CSRD, SSS-III
on March 03, 2017, 11-30 am
About The Speaker: Professor Tim Dyson, an eminent demographer, is currently with LSE. He has held visiting positions at various prestigious universities and institutes around the world and has been president of British Society for Population Studies. His work on the role of the demographic transition in creation of the modern world by considering the transition's major causal processes and their multifarious effects, are considered to be pioneering in the field of formal demography. He has published several books on India's demography, both in its historical and contemporary contexts. Some of his prominent books includes: 'Population and Development: The Demographic Transition'; 'Population and Food: Global Trends and Prospects'; 'India's Historical Demography'; and 'India's Demography: Essays on the Contemporary Population'.