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tamadeangmo t1_iwrpym5 wrote

What is classified as India here ? The current borders or by contemporaneous definitions ?

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ElderberryJumpy9901 OP t1_iwsurg6 wrote

This data includes population of present day Pakistan and Bangladesh till 1820.

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sunchaud t1_iwt4m01 wrote

May I ask why 1820? The Partition separating the British Raj was in 1947

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ElderberryJumpy9901 OP t1_iwt51sh wrote

Wikipedia doesnt give the reason for this. My guess would be the availability of more detailed census data which allowed for excluding these reasons in later calculations.

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ManasZankhana t1_iwtcs5z wrote

Can you make another chart with that data still included

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