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Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100 years was the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era science policy was constructed. Whether as critics of India’s poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, India’s commentators called on a broad framework of science both to diagnose ...
Within the scholarly fields of demography, development studies, medical anthropology and public policy, the history of reproduction has been dominated by preconceived and often ahistorical ideas about India’s supposed long-term trend towards “over-population.†When these scholarly fields have invoked histories of fertility and contraception, these histories have largely been made to serve as the “pre-modern†antithesis to a fully “modern†future. In ...