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Bring out the socio-cultural constraints in population control in rural areas. Suggest steps to make population control measures more effective.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Population Dynamics

Rural India resisted the family planning programme not out of ignorance but out of reasoning. Mahmood Mamdani's The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste and Class in an Indian Village (1972), a re-study of Manupur in Punjab after the Khanna birth-control experiment, found villagers accepting the pills and not using them: they had more children…

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  • Children as labour and as old-age security
  • Son preference, kinship and insurance births
  • Authority, early marriage and women's want of voice
  • Distrust of the programme itself
  • Steps that follow from the diagnosis
  • Conclusion

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