Although life expectancy has improved remarkably with wide availability of curative medicines, health (besides education) is still a highly neglected sector in the development process of India. Particularly neglected area of health is the provision of maternal and child health care services. The neglect covers the areas of infrastructure and skills development and quality of care. Consequently, levels of health care services utililization for mothers and children are among the lowest even by the standards of developing world, although there are vast amounts of regional ...

Although life expectancy has improved remarkably with wide availability of curative medicines, health (besides education) is still a highly neglected sector in the development process of India. Particularly neglected area of health is the provision of maternal and child health care services. The neglect covers the areas of infrastructure and skills development and quality of care. Consequently, levels of health care services utililization for mothers and children are among the lowest even by the standards of developing world, although there are vast amounts of regional ...

This study is a major effort towards a comparative assessment of the historical and political economy dimensions of fertility transition in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. The states represent two distinct paradigm in terms of historical, cultural and political economy factors shaping the varying origin and context of demographic changes and fertility transition. In this analysis, an extensive volume of evidences have been constructed on the demographic trends, progress in development and infrastructure, evolution of political economy structure, both relating to historical...