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The entitled ‘Population Ecology and Family Planning’ is a very Painstaking Study of population and family planning in the districts of Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. The author has laid hands on selected topics like material used, area and people, ethnographic profile of Kinnaura, Socio-economic characteristics, marriage, polyandry, menarche, menopause and life span, population structure and characteristics, fertility, mortality, natural selection, family planning, health structure with a comparative temperament in other Indian and foreign states. The book presents material of different sources on demographic anthropology which is different collect and compile. It also compiles definitions and methodologies of population analysis. It also presents data diagrams making the study easy and presentable. Convincing statistics have been presented. The subject and treatment is keenly knowledgeable and understandable. Chapter on Family Planning, which is a burning topic of the day is well reproduced with complete family planning methods in practice in India and specially in district Kinnaura. Students and research scholars face several problems in the study of demographic anthropology. Full attention has paid to these difficulties and make the subject most interesting and understandable. Students appearing in UPSC/SPSC Examinations will finds the present study most suitable to their needs. The book can also be used be side reference book and will be useful for UGC-NET examination also. The book designed for the students of anthropology, biology, demography, geography, political science, population studies, sociology, medicine and public health management, The government planners and policy makers can use the book as guidelines on the subject dealt and the data and diagrams presented. Health indicators set the Government of Himachal Pradesh. The book will be useful collection of library and information center for its demography and anthropology, as well as for Health section.
ISBN - 9788183873147
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Pages : 475
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