Ashish Bose
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The acronym 'BIMARU' states was widely used in the mid-1980s to refer to the population issues of India's four largest states—Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Ashish Bose, the man who coined this much-discussed term, is the pioneer of demographic studies in the country. In Headcount, the demographer sets the record straight on BIMARU, and in the process, presents his unique view of modern India. In his inimitable engaging ...
This book is designed to give the students of population and the general public an overview of the world’s second largest census; also presented, are the provisional results of the Census released recently by the Census Commissioner. It contains critical comments on the census results by a leading demographer. The key tables from the Population Census and the Economic Census are presented for ready reference, along with the detailed tabulation plan for the ...
This Book India's Billion Plus People presents the first results of the 2001 census of India in a user-friendly manner. Part one describes briefly the houselisting operation and the enumeration as well as the new features of this census. Part two gives demographic profile of India and the 28 States and 7 Union Territories, grouped in ten categories, according to their unique characteristics. Part three deals with the implications of the census results. Part four ...
This volume, the first in a new series on Population Profile of India, presents 177 key tables, on important facets of India’s population based on data, selectively chosen from the Census of India, 1991, National Family Health Survey (1992-93), Sample Registration System (1980-94) and other official sources of demographic data. In addition, select data from UNFPA’s latest Report (1996) on the State of Wrold Population are presented for making international ...
In this long awaited new book Growing Old in India: Voices Reveal, Statistics Speak Ashish Bose, world-wide well-known economist and demographer along with Mala Kapur Shankardass, internationally reputed expert on Ageing Studies, use the voices of older people, government officials, United Nations Representatives, Voluntary sector workers and a whole range of statistics as part of research, projections and available data from documented sources, census data, ...
This volume is a tribute to the late Krishna Raj, the celebrated editor of Economic and Political Weekly. It brings together contributions of the author on a wide range of topics published in EPW during the last five years. It combines analysis of census data with reality check based on the author’s field work all over India. It also gives a glimpse of International conferences and seminars which the author attended. The foreword is written by Professor K.N. ...
This volume supplements in a big way the data presented in earlier publication--Demographic Diversity of India (1991, 1992, 1994). The new data from 1991 census released by the Registrar General in the form of diskettes and reports have been processed and presented in a use-friendly manner. This reference volume is the first of its kind, focussing on individual districts of all the states and union territories of India. It should be indispensable for the students ...