Kerala's Demographic Transition: Determinants and Consequent. Edited by K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan. New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1997, 367 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

Abstract

Papers from this collective work were presented at a session on the demographic transition held at the International Congress on Kerala Studies held in Trivandrum India in August 1994. The 16 papers are organized into four main sections dealing with the demographic transition the determinants of demographic change the consequences of demographic change and migration. The papers included are as follows: Keralas demographic transition: an overview by K. C. Zachariah and S. Irudaya Rajan; Demographic transition since independence by P. N. Mari Bhat and S. Irudaya Rajan; Demographic transition: a response to official policies and programmes by K. C. Zachariah; Onset of mortality and fertility transition: new evidence from parish records by S. Irudaya Rajan P. N. Mari Bhat and Tim Dyson; Fertility mortality and contraceptive prevalence: evidence from the National Family Health Survey by P. S. Nair; Can poverty determine fertility? Agricultural labourers and their fertility decisions by K. S. James; Determinants and correlates of age at marriage by K. Krishnakumari and G. K. Moli; Education and Fertility: Is there any Link? by D. Radha Devi; Life table analysis of the labour force by S. Sulaja and N. B. Sureshkumar; Dynamics of age at maternity by U. S. Mishra and S. Irudaya Rajan; Low birth weight and need for nutritional care for pregnant women by R. S. Kurup; Population ageing: causes and consequences by S. Irudaya Rajan and U.S. Mishra; Inter-regional comparison of demographic conditions; by P. Mohanachandran Nair; Peasant migration from Travancore to Malabar by K. V. Joseph; Economic consequences of Gulf migration by T. M. Tomas Isaac; Social consequences of international migration: case studies of women left behind by Leela Gulati.