The Impact on India of Population Transfers in 1947 and After

P. R. Brahmananda
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P. R. Brahmananda: University of Bombay

Chapter Chapter 20 in Economics of International Migration, 1958, pp 283-294 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The partition of undivided India into India and Pakistan was followed by one of the greatest mass transfers of population in history and involved about 16 million, i.e. more than twice the population of Australia and more than the entire population of Canada.1 The suddenness of this event made all attempts towards a planned exchange of population impossible. Large-scale migrations have taken place in different countries in the past for reasons such as political dissatisfaction, religious persecution, racial hatred, and economic insecurity; but the migrations of India and Pakistan are unique in that at one stroke millions in either country found themselves as aliens in lands where they and their forefathers had earned their livelihood for centuries. A substantial part of the transfer had to be completed within less than a year. In view of the suddenness, the magnitude and the speed of the migrations, they can rightly be called the Great Displacement. This paper will deal with the economic impact of the transfer on the Indian economy.

Keywords: Capital Formation; Consumption Good; Population Transfer; Displace Person; Jute Textile (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1958
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-08443-2_20

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