<Tr> <Td> 1800 </Td> <Td> 200,900,000 </Td> <Td> 21.8 </Td> <Td> 190,000,000 </Td> <Td>--10.8 </Td> <Td> 190,700,000 </Td> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> 185,000,000 </Td> <Td> 18.4 </Td> <Td> 190,400,000 </Td> <Td> 8 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 1820 </Td> <Td> 209,000,000 </Td> <Td> 21.8 </Td> <Td> 190,000,000 </Td> <Td> 0 </Td> <Td> 194,000,000 </Td> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td>--</Td> <Td> 200,000,000 </Td> <Td> 47.7 </Td> <Td> 198,300,000 </Td> <Td> 22 </Td> </Tr> <P> The population grew from the South Asian Stone Age in 10,000 BC to the Maurya Empire in 200 BC at a steadily increasing growth rate, before population growth slowed down in the classical era up to 500 AD, and then became largely stagnant during the early medieval era era up to 1000 AD . The population growth rate then increased in the late medieval era (during the Delhi Sultanate) from 1000 to 1500 . </P> <P> India's population growth rate under the Mughal Empire (16th--18th centuries) was higher than during any previous period in Indian history . Under the Mughal Empire, India experienced an unprecedented economic and demographic upsurge, due to Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production, proto - industrialization that established India as the most important centre of manufacturing in international trade, and a relatively high degree of urbanisation for its time; 15% of the population lived in urban centres, higher than the percentage of the population in 19th - century British India and contemporary Europe up until the 19th century . </P>

Great division year in the history of population growth in india