India and Pakistan
The Demography of Partition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2845575 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kingsley Davis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1949 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 254 |
| Publication date | 1949-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Pacific Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0030-851X • E-ISSN: 1715-3379 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2751797 |
| OpenAlex | W2313060513 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
THE advent of independence in the Indian subcontinent caught the experts by surprise. There is consequently an extreme paucity of literature on the Union of India and Pakistan, and what does exist is characterized more by vagueness than by exactitude. Demographic data, for example, are scanty indeed. The governments of the Indian Union and of Pakistan have had little time to gather and publish statistics. If they take censuses in i95i, as they plan to do, information will be forthcoming. In the meantime one must depend on the I93i and I94I censuses, whose usefulness as sources of information concerning the two countries considered separately is limited by four circumstances. (i) Publication of the I94I census had to be curtailed drastically because of the war. Such volumes as have been published (representing only a small fraction of the data collected) are but thin wraiths compared to the large and comprehensive ones published for each previous census in a magnificent series beginning in I872. (2) In the award separating Pakistan from the Union of India, the boundary cut through certain districts. Since in the census volumes the statistics are not generally cross-tabulated for areas smaller than districts, the numbers and kinds of people living on each side of the boundary in the divided districts have to be estimated. (3) Certain of the princely states have until recently been in dispute, and Kashmir still is in dispute. (4) Use of the I94T census to deduce current population characteristics in India and Pakistan is affected by the mass migration which occurred after partition. Since accurate statistics on this migration could not be compiled, the roughest sort of estimates must be utilized. The main purpose of the present article is to give the results of computations that have not been made before. In most cases the conclusions are not new but are simply old ones stated more precisely. Some of the calculations support results reached by other quantitative investigators. A few suggest new conclusions heretofore unsuspected
Census · Geography · Independence (probability theory) · Political science · Population · Population statistics · Publication · Sociology · Statistics · Surprise · Demography · Law · Mathematics · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1953 - 2015 (63) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |