Population Dynamics in Contemporary South Asia

PART I: Social Issues- Health and Health Care Services

1. Attitude of Men Towards Contraceptive Use in India: A Case Study of the High Focus State of Bihar

Anuradha Banerjee, Vidyasagar Trigun 

2. Reproductive Morbidity in Bangladesh: Patterns, Determinants and Treatment Seeking Behaviour in Dhaka DistrictSadananda Mitra 



3. A Comparative Study of Socio-Economic Determinants of Infant and Child Mortality in Jorhat and Dhubri Districts, Assam

Ritu Kumar Mishra 4. Pattern and Utilisation of Maternal and Child Health Services in Nepal



Bina Rai

5. Trend and Pattern of Infant Mortality in West Bengal, India: A Critical Appraisal
N.C. Jana, Syfujjaman Tarafder



6. Health Seeking Behaviour and Reproductive Rights of Antenatal Women in Delhi


Sweta Kumari Gupta

PART II: Socio-Economic Issues- Education and Occupation

7. Educational Development in Himachal Pradesh

 Suman Negi

 8. Socio-Economic Deprivation among Slum Dwellers: A Case Study of Migrants in Slums of Allahabad

 Vinod Kumar Mishra, Anuradha Banerjee

 9. Occupational Structure of Workforce in a Peri-Urban Setting: A Case Study of NCT Delhi

Tarsem Lal

 10.  Educational Attainment and Occupation of Women in Haryana: A Geographical Analysis

Anita Yadav

 11.  Spatial Patterns of Educational Levels and Outputs in Bikaner District, Rajasthan

Vikas Saharan

 PART III: Mobility and Migration

12. Pattern, Structure and Consequences of International Migration in Nepal

Deo Kumari Gurung 13. Integrating Migrants in an Urban Industrial Environment



Nivedita Hansraj

Prof. Anuradha Banerjee is a Professor of Geography at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Her research interests include urbanization and urban environment; population issues including maternal and child health; reproductive health; sexual health, HIV/AIDS; human ecology; development studies (women's and child development); human settlements; issues of uneven development; exclusion and discrimination; and application of remote sensing and GIS in geographical analysis. She has published numerous articles in national and international journals, and 2 academic books.

Dr. Narayan Chandra Jana is a Professor at the Department of Geography, the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India, and an applied geographer with postgraduate and doctoral degrees in Geography, postgraduate degree in Disaster Mitigation, a PG diploma in Sustainable Rural Development and diploma in Tourism Studies. He has published Seven books and 100 research articles. He is a member of the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Landscape Systems and Ecological Studies and member of the advisory board of the journal Earth Surface Review. His interests include applied geomorphology, hazards & disasters, environmental issues, land use and rural development.



Dr. Vinod Kumar Mishra is an Assistant Professor, IIDS, New Delhi. He has a Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, with specialization in population geography. He has published numerous journal articles and book chapters. His main research areas are urbanization, poverty, health, social exclusion, and social protection programmes. He is the managing editor of the Journal of Social Inclusion Studies.