Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Demographic Structure of Indian Society

Question:

The 'Essay on Population' was written by__________.

Options:

Karl Marx

Max Weber

Thomas Robert Malthus

Louis Dumont

Correct Answer:

Thomas Robert Malthus

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option (3) → Thomas Robert Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus, an English cleric and scholar, wrote Essay on Population (1798). In this essay, Malthus argued that population growth tends to outpace the growth of resources, leading to inevitable checks such as famine, disease, and war, unless population growth is controlled