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The process of demographic transition is not uniform in India. Examine this statement in the context of demographic transition theory.

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  • Cultural Setting

Warren Thompson (1929) first classified countries by the divergent behaviour of their birth and death rates; Frank W. Notestein (1945) turned that classification into a staged sequence — high stationary, early expanding, late expanding, low stationary.

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  • The theory the statement invokes
  • Placing Indian states on the stages
  • Testing the theory against the Indian evidence
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