Growth of Muslim Population in Medieval India, A.D. 1000–1800 c23.2

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India is, and always has been, a highly populated country. Today India and Pakistan have about 18 per cent, or almost a fifth of the world's population. They have more people than all of Europe exclusive of Russia, and almost as many as in the continents of Arica, North America, and South America combined. At least three out of every four persons in the British Empire before partition were Indians.¹