Introduction / Latika Chaudhary, Bishnupriya Gupta, Tirthankar Roy and Anand Swamy -- Indian economic performance and living standards : 1600-2000 / Stephen Broadberry and Bishnupriya Gupta -- The colonial transition and the decline of the East India Company, c.1746-1784 / Santhi Hejeebu -- The...

ABSTRACT. We construct novel data on female population shares by age, district, and religion in South Asia from 1881 to 1931. Sex ratios skew male in Northern India and are more balanced in Southern and Eastern India, including Burma. Male-biased sex ratios emerge most visibly after age 10, and...