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Storming the citadels of poverty : family planning under the emergency in India, 1975–1977
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Williams, Rebecca J. (2014) Storming the citadels of poverty : family planning under the emergency in India, 1975–1977. Journal of Asian Studies, Volume 73 (Number 2). pp. 471-492. doi:10.1017/S0021911813002350 ISSN 0021-9118.
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Abstract
This article examines family planning during the Emergency in India, drawing upon the archive of the Shah Commission of Inquiry. It aims, primarily, to understand why family planning became such an important point of state intervention during the Emergency, when millions were sterilized. I argue that family planning was intended as a technocratic fix for the problem of poverty and that, although the family planning program existed before the Emergency, it received a fillip through Indira Gandhi's Emergency-era push for poverty eradication thanks to the established position of population control as a prerequisite for economic development. Secondly, it aims to understand how the Emergency and sterilization have become conflated in popular memory, such that the driving forces of poverty eradication and economic development have dropped out of the story altogether. The link between poverty eradication and population control has been forgotten, and a narrative of arbitrary family planning “excess” endured.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Other > Institute of Advanced Study | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Asian Studies | ||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||
ISSN: | 0021-9118 | ||||||
Official Date: | May 2014 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 73 | ||||||
Number: | Number 2 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 471-492 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0021911813002350 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
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