Population Redistribution and Development in South Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Leszek A. Kosiński, K. Maudood Elahi

   Pages 3-14

3. Population Redistribution and Settlement Change in South Asia: A Historical Evaluation

   • K. Maudood Elahi, Sabiha Sultana

   Pages 15-35

4. Migration in South Asia: An Overview

   • Ronald Skeldon

   Pages 37-63

5. Regional Development Process and Redistribution of Tribal Population in Mid-India

   • Aijazuddin Ahmad

   Pages 65-78

6. Flood Induced Population Migration in India: A Case Study of Ghaghara Zone

   • S. L. Kayastha, R. P. Yadava

   Pages 79-88

7. A Cultural Ecological Appraisal of Refugee Resettlement in Independent India

   • A. B. Mukerji

   Pages 89-109

8. Land Resettlement Policy as a Population Distribution Strategy in Nepal

   • V. B. S. Kansakar

   Pages 111-122

9. Trends of the Redistribution of Population in Nepal

   • C. B. Shrestha

   Pages 123-138

10. Population Growth and Redistribution in Sri Lanka, 1901–1981

    • A. W. A. D. G. Abayasekara

    Pages 139-154

11. Evolution of Population Policies in Sri Lanka

    • R. S. Gunawardena

    Pages 155-168

12. Urbanization and Development Strategies in Sri Lanka

    • P. Puvanarajam

    Pages 169-184

13. Some Aspects of Population Redistribution in Pakistan: 1951–81

    • Qazi Shakil Ahmad

    Pages 185-195

14. Population Mobility in North West Frontier Province of Pakistan

    • Mohammed Aslam Khan

    Pages 197-220

15. Refugee Problems in Bangladesh

    • A. F. M. Kamaluddin

    Pages 221-236

16. Back Matter

    Pages 237-243

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The mutual relationship between change in population distribution and its determinants and consequences on one hand, and social and economic development on the other, is becoming an increasingly important area of concern for researchers, policy makers and planners alike. During tha last several years the International Geographical Union Commission on Population Geography has devoted much of its attention to this problem and organized a series of international meetings focusing on population redistribution and its ramifications in different parts of the world. During one such meeting, held in 1980 in Karachi, Pakistan, some thirty papers were submitted by participants coming mostly from five countries in South Asia: Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The present volume is an outcome of that symposium, but it should not be regarded merely as a report of proceedings; these have been published separately by the Commission. Furthermore, all Pakistani papers were published intheir original version in a separate volume edited by M.1. Siddiqi, who coordinated local arrangements for the meeting on behalf of Karachi University. This present volume offers only a selection of the original papers, all substantially edited and thoroughly revised, and brings them together with additionally solicited texts. All original figures have been redrawn and tables and references have been updated and standardized as much as possible.

• geography
• migration
• mobility
• population

• Department of Geography, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada

  Leszek A. Kosiński

• Department of Geography, Jahangirnagar University, Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  K. Maudood Elahi

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