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Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.
Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently
have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based
therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the
peculiar slippages between individual bodies and a body politic
occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human
reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as
well as additional complications to the field. Contrary to popular
belief, India has one of the most long-lasting, institutionalized,
far-reaching, state sponsored family planning programs in the
world. During the inter-war period the country witnessed the
formation of groups dedicated to promoting the cause of birth
control. This book outlines the early history of birth control in
India, particularly the Tamil south. In so doing, it illuminates
India's role in a global network of birth control advocacy. The
book also argues how Indians' contraceptive advocacy and
associationalism became an increasingly significant realm of action
in which they staked claims not just about the utility of
contraception but simultaneously over their ability and right to
self-rule.
Birth control holds an unusual place in the history of medicine.
Largely devoid of doctors or hospitals, only relatively recently
have birth control histories included tales of laboratory-based
therapeutic innovation. Instead, these histories elucidate the
peculiar slippages between individual bodies and a body politic
occasioned by the promotion of techniques to manipulate human
reproduction. The history of birth control in India brings these as
well as additional complications to the field. Contrary to popular
belief, India has one of the most long-lasting, institutionalized,
far-reaching, state sponsored family planning programs in the
world. During the inter-war period the country witnessed the
formation of groups dedicated to promoting the cause of birth
control. This book outlines the early history of birth control in
India, particularly the Tamil south. In so doing, it illuminates
India's role in a global network of birth control advocacy. The
book also argues how Indians' contraceptive advocacy and
associationalism became an increasingly significant realm of action
in which they staked claims not just about the utility of
contraception but simultaneously over their ability and right to
self-rule.
Poverty whether as drain theory at the start of the twentieth
century or through garibi hatao towards the end of those 100
yearswas the predominant economic, political, and social paradigm
within which late colonial, nationalist and post-independence era
science policy was constructed. Whether as critics of Indias
poverty, or as architects of measures for its eradication, Indias
commentators called on a broad framework of science both to
diagnose and treat poverty. Yet, when we think of science in India
today, this earlier priority of poverty eradication is now hard to
find. Poverty eradication as a goal in itself seems to have fallen
off Indias scientific agenda almost entirely. What accounts for
this? This volume asks: Has the problem of poverty in India been
solved? Or, has it become inconvenient alongside the rise of new
narratives that frame India as a site of remarkable economic
growth? Indeed, has there been a loss of faith in the ability of
science to tackle poverty? Together, the essays in this volume
explore the broader implications for the new role of science in
India: as a driver of economic growth for India, rather than as a
solution to the persistence of poverty.
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