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1032436328 rar This book is the first systematic study on the historiography of the family planning communication process in India. It traces the history of the development of a highly technical health communication process. It discusses how the discourse on Indias population problem was at the heart of the development dialogue which was being promoted by the British colonial administration. The book examines the role of the censuses and the Five-Year plans in the development of the discussion on the population explosion in India. Also, it critically discusses the role of the Ford Foundations leadership in institutionalising the communication process in India. The book essentially argues that population control communication enabled the ideas of a homogenised nation, an ideal Indian woman and an ideal Indian family. This, in turn, led to the obliteration of cultural, ethnic, geographical and economic specificities of India as a country. Read more