Shortlisted for the 2023 BASAS Book Prize presented by British Association for South Asian
Studies Based on ethnographic fieldwork in a village in the north Indian state of Uttar …

This paper discusses a relatively new but an emerging demographic phenomenon of single-
child families in India. This paper examines the levels, trends and determinants of single …

This report aims at providing detailed information on the question of urban-rural linkages in
the case of India, except regarding the topic of food systems. It does follow the structure …

This chapter examines the pace and contours of fertility decline in India since the 1950s.
India's fertility recent history is characterized on the one hand by long-term trends that are …

This paper examines recent changes in the life trajectories of Indian women. We use data
from four major national population surveys that span the years 1998–2016. We look at …

This essay discusses the Indian government's implementation of maternal death reviews
(MDR) across the country in response to a global WHO strategy called 'Beyond the …

This paper compares Hierarchical Clustering, Bayesian Networks and Self-Organizing Map
Neural Networks (SOM and superSOM) approaches used for clustering purposes in …

The recent female literacy and fertility levels in Kerala state are examined using the 2011
census data. Arriaga's approach for estimation of age-specific fertility rates is undertaken to …

The fertility–development relationship is bi-directional, context-specific, multi-phased and
inconsistent over time. Indian districts provide an ideal setting to study this association due …

Urban India is struggling to provide adequate water and sanitation services to its citizens.
Open defecation, insufficient wastewater treatment, and mixing of untreated wastewater with …