The Lineaments of Population Policy in India

Mohan Rao is Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. A medical doctor specialised in public health, he has written extensively on the history and politics of health and population. He has also been closely associated with the women’s movements and health movements in the country. He is the author of From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic (2004), has edited Disinvesting in Health: The World Bank’s Prescriptions (1999) and The Unheard Scream: Reproductive Health and Women’s Lives in India (2004) and co-edited Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times (with Sarah Sextor, 2010) and Public Health and Private Wealth: Stem Cells, Surrogates and Other Strategic Bodies (with Sarah Hodges, 2016).

Preface. Acknowledgements. General Introduction. Introduction Part I The Ideas of Malthus 1. India Famine Commission 2. Census of India, 1891: Government of India 1893 3. Census of India (1911) 4. Census of India, 1931 5. Sub-Committee on Women’s Role in Planned Economy 6. Report of Health Survey and Development Committee 7. National Planning Committee Series: Population 8. Extracts from National Planning Committee Report of Sub-Committee on Public Health Part II The Population Bomb Years 9. First Five Year Plan 10. Report of The Health Survey and Planning Committee 11. Third Five Year Plan (1961–66) 12. Report of The Committee to Study the Question of Legalisation of Abortion 13. Central Family Planning Council 14. The Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 15. Report of The Committee of Multipurpose Workers Under Health and Family Planning Programme: Ministry of Health and Family Planning 16. Extracts from Towards Equality Report of The Committee on the Status of Women in India 17. National Population Policy Part III Women as Votaries 18. Shah Commission of Inquiry Final Report 19. Report of The Working Group on Population Policy 20. ICSSR & ICMR Health for All: An Alternative Strategy 21. Statement on National Health Policy 22. Maharashtra Act No. XV of 1988 23. Task Force on Hormonal Contraception Part IV Paradigm Shift? 24. Expert Group on Population Policy: Draft National Population Policy 25. The Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994 26. Andhra Pradesh State Population Policy: A Statement and a Strategy 27. Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research on Human Subjects 28. National Population Policy 29. National Health Policy 30. National Human Rights Commission: Declaration 2003 31. Panchayati Raj and the ‘Two-Child Norm’: Implications and Consequences 32. JNU Statement: Looking Back at Cairo 33. The Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation Bill, 2008) 34. Draft: The Assisted Reproductive Technologies (Regulation) Bill – 2010 Index