This book is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Pravin Visaria, one of India’s most renowned demographers. In one of his recent writings with the senior editor of the present volume, he had termed the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) as a landmark in Indian surveys. With the subsequent rounds, the NFHS has emerged as a storehouse of social, demographic, health data in India. This book is the outcome of efforts made by a few researchers in India and abroad to indicate how data generated by NFHS can offer valuable insights into the changing quality of life of Indians.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR K S James
Dr. K.S. James is Deputy Director, at the Population Research Centre, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Previously, he had worked as Fellow at Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad and also as a visiting Fellow at Harvard Center for Population and Development, USA. He is one among the few demographers in India who have utilized ecclesiastical registers as source of data to understand demographic and social history. His current areas of interest centre around population and health in relation to socio-economic development. He has published several papers in national and international journals.
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