Family Planning Communication in India

Shashwati Goswami is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Research at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, India. Previously, as a communication professional, she has been associated with India’s national radio broadcaster, the All India Radio and BBC Media Action. As a media academic, she has received varied grants and fellowships from numerous research and academic organisations, including Panos South Asia, Rockefeller Archive Centre, New York and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University. Her areas of research and teaching are political economy of media, gender and media, health communication and development and conflict-zone journalism. She has been an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (PhD), University of Delhi (MA) and Cotton College, Gauhati University (BA Hons).

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction 1 Malthusian Heritage and Family Planning in India: A Historiography 2 Development Communication: Theory and Practice 3 Family Planning Communication: The Actors and the Acts 4 Family Planning Communication through the Intersection of Nationalism, Religion, Caste, Class and Gender 5 Conclusion: Is There One? Index