Table of Contents

1: Overview
Demography
2: India's Population: The Past
3: Mortality Trends and the Health Transition
4: The Continuing Fertility Transition
5: India's Population: The Future
6: Migration and Urbanization: Retrospect and Prospects
Social Sectors and the Economy
7: Education and Literacy
8: Employment
9: The Condition of the People
10: The Economy, the Past, and the Future
Population, Food, and Environment
11: Prospects for Food Demand and Supply
12: Modelling the Environment
13: India's Urban Environment, Current Knowledge, and Future Possibilities
14: Water
15: Common Pool Resources
Policy
16: Lessons and Policies

About the Author

Tim Dyson is Professor of Population Studies at the Development Studies Institute at the London School of Economics. Educated in England and Canada, he has held visiting positions at the Australian National University in Canberra, the International Institute of Population Sciences in Mumbai, and the American University of Beirut. Between 1994 and 1996 he was President of the British Society for Population Studies, and in 2001 he was elected a Fellow of the British
Academy. Robert Cassen is Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. He has held positions at Queen Elizabeth House and St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford, the Institute of
Development Studies at the University of Sussex, and the World Bank. Leela Visaria is Professor at the Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad. She has been an Associate Professor at the Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research in Ahmedabad, a research demographer at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington DC, and a demographer at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Reviews

A valuable reference book and a model of quantitative analysis and sound prediction.
*Foreign Affairs*