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Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India (A.D. 1000-1800) is a book by K.S. Lal published in 1973.

The book asseses the demographics of India between 1000 CE and 1500 CE. On the basis of the available historical evidence, K.S. Lal concluded that the population of India in 1000 CE was about 200 million and in 1500 CE 170 million. He says however that "any study of the population of the precensus times can be based only on estimates, and estimates by their very nature tend to be tentative"

K.S. Lal estimates that about 60 to 80 million people died in India between 1000 CE and 1525 CE as a result of the Islamic invasion of India. He concluded that about 2 million people died during Mahmud of Ghazni's invasions of India (pp. 211-217).

Criticism

The historian Irfan Habib criticized the book in his "Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate - An Essay in Interpretation" (Habib 1978). In 1979 K.S. Lal wrote a reply to Irfan Habib's cricism in 1979 (Lal 1979) and in 1999 (Lal 1999).

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