Demography and Religion in India

Demography and Religion in India

Author: Sriya Iyer

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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Examines The Role Of Religion In Determining Population Growth In India By Analysing The Theological Content Of Islam And Hinduism In This Context. An Enriching Read For Demographers, Economists, Researchers, Gender Specialists And Anthropologists.


Demography of India

Demography of India

Author: P. C. Bansil

Publisher: Daya Publishing House

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9789387057197

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Demography meaning the study of population deals with all aspects of population. The book is divided in 2 parts. While Part-I deals with various problems relating to different aspects of population, Part-II provides all types of basic data dealing directly/indirectly with different aspects of population. It is hoped that the book will be of great value to the students, researchers and all those who are interested to know about the Demographics in India. Some tables directly/ indirectly concerned with the subject are provided at the end to help the reader to understand the subject better.


Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia

Contemporary Demographic Transformations in China, India and Indonesia

Author: Christophe Z. Guilmoto

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-12

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 3319247832

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This book examines the profound demographic transformation affecting China, India, and Indonesia, where 40% of the world's people live. It offers a systematic, comparative approach that will help readers to better understand the changing social and regional recomposition of the population in these regions. The chapters present a detailed investigation and mapping of regional trends in mortality, fertility, migration and urbanization, education, and aging. Throughout, the analysis carefully considers how these trends affect economic and social development. Coverage also raises global, theoretical questions about the singular ways in which each of these three countries have achieved their demographic transition. As the authors reveal, demographic trends seem to be somewhat linear and anticipatable, providing Asia’s three demographic giants and their governments a formidable advantage in planning for the future. But the evolution of human mobility in China, India, and Indonesia, closely intertwined as it is with changing economic conditions, appears less predictable and ranks high among the major challenges to demographic knowledge in the coming decades. Offering an insightful look into the components, implications, and regional variations of a changing population, this book will appeal to social scientists, demographers, anthropologists, sociologists, epidemiologists, and specialists in Asian studies.


Realising the Demographic Dividend

Realising the Demographic Dividend

Author: Santosh Mehrotra

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-10

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 1316843319

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This book discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in India and realise the demographic dividend, which will end by 2040 when India will become an aging society. India is the world's fastest growing large economy, but jobs are not growing equally rapidly. The size of India's youth workforce is worrying, and the largely informal workforce is not covered by social insurance. Universal elementary education, despite the Right to Education Act 2009, is yet to be achieved. Health outcomes have improved only slowly over the years. Furthermore, sanitation still remains a very serious problem. As an economist and former policy-maker, the author discusses specific policies to address these problems, well beyond what is currently being practised. The book also deals with the governance issues that need to be addressed before inclusive growth can be attained.


India's Demography

India's Demography

Author: Prabhat Kumara Majumdar

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788131605691

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This book shows how population growth in India is overwhelmingly linked to death rates mostly caused by epidemics and famines. Once these came under some control, along with the arrival of preventive medicines and improved health care facilities, death rates plummeted rapidly, resulting in faster growth of population. India's Demography recognizes how the control of birth rate and arresting IMR and child mortality became the top priority of India's government to contain population growth. It gives a detailed account of how the general death rate and IMR fell, resulting in an increase in life expectancy, and it also examines some key differentials like sex, education, occupation, religion, and residence. India's 2011 population data confirms that "missing girls" have become a critical issue in age-sex structure in the population. The dismal conditions of health services and education have been emphasized. The impact of economic liberalization, infrastructure development, land use, poor technology for food grain production, per capita consumption/expenditure, employment situation, and many other related issues are thoroughly discussed. The book is critical about some aspects of census operations and reports. Anomalies in age composition of the population, especially in some selected ages, have been highlighted. The drastic drop in the sex ratio in the age group 0-4 during the latter half of the past millennium raises many unanswered questions. In spite of India's Marriage Restraint Act, 1976 and repeated directives from the Supreme Court for making registration compulsory for every marriage, nothing has been done by governments to prevent early marriage of girls.


Pestilence and Persistence

Pestilence and Persistence

Author: Kathleen Louann Hull

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 0520258479

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This innovative examination of the Yosemite Indian experience in California poses broad challenges to our understanding of the complex, destructive encounters that took place between colonists and native peoples across North America. Looking closely at archaeological data, native oral tradition, and historical accounts, Kathleen Hull focuses in particular on the timing, magnitude, and consequences of the introduction of lethal infectious diseases to Native communities. The Yosemite Indian case suggests that epidemic disease penetrated small-scale hunting and gathering groups of the interior of North America prior to face-to-face encounters with colonists. It also suggests, however, that even the catastrophic depopulation that resulted from these diseases was insufficient to undermine the culture and identity of many Native groups. Instead, engagement in colonial economic ventures often proved more destructive to traditional indigenous lifeways. Hull provides further context for these central issues by examining ten additional cases of colonial-era population decline in groups ranging from Iroquoian speakers of the Northeast to complex chiefdoms of the Southeast and Puebloan peoples of the Southwest.


Population and Sustainable Development in India

Population and Sustainable Development in India

Author: Aalok Ranjan Chaurasia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 9813292121

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This book addresses central issues related to population and sustainable development in India, the second most populous country in the world. Using the latest available source of data in the context of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, it analyzes the current state of development in India in terms of economic growth, social inclusion, and environmental protection, especially focusing on the role of population. The respective chapters explore various aspects, but mainly focus on promoting greater sustainability in terms of population growth, child survival, and economic growth. As such, the book will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers in the fields of population studies, economics, and international development.


Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh

Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh

Author: Aparajita Chattopadhyay

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-05-01

Total Pages: 471

ISBN-13: 9811530459

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This book highlights historical and current perspectives on population issues in the Bengali-speaking states of India (i.e., West Bengal, Tripura, Assam) and Bangladesh and explores three core population dynamics: fertility, mortality–morbidity and development. Furthermore, it presents a selection of revealing cases from area-specific micro-studies, mainly conducted in West Bengal and Bangladesh. The book covers various demographic and health issues in these two regions, which are similar in terms of several sociocultural aspects, yet dissimilar in terms of their policies and programs. Adopting an integrated approach that combines various disciplines and perspectives, it explores highly topical issues such as social inequality, religious difference and mental health. The book is intended for a broad readership interested in population studies, sociology and development, including academics, researchers, planners and policymakers.


India's Demographic Transition

India's Demographic Transition

Author: Sebastian Irudaya Rajan

Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9788175330283

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This book brings together some papers on Indian censuses and in particular the 1991 census. Among the subjects discussed are probllems of conducting the census operations and collection of data, especially at the field level, the decline in the sex ratio and in the population growth, the employment situation with the ocus of women and work, urbanization and the nature of demographic transition in India.


India's Demography

India's Demography

Author: Tim Dyson

Publisher: Humanities Press International

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 252

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Papers presented at a conference, Worcester College, Oxford, Dec. 1982, under the auspices of the British Society for Population Studies.