Aprajita Sarcar
Biographic Data
| ID | 4786994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aprajita Sarcar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aprajita |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarcar |
| SIGNATURE | SARCAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Doctoral Candidate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5904-927X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Family planning as artefact
Circumventing the Nation
Historiography on late colonial public health governance in India has detailed the imprints of transnational funders, namely the Rockfeller Foundation and later, the Ford foundation on funding, research, and knowledge production around national programmes and personnel in India. The National Archives in India, is significantly thin on subjects like demography, reproductive policies and birth control technologies. Scholars have to necessarily rely…
Building the Population Bomb. Emily Klancher Merchant
Journal Article Building the Population Bomb. Emily Klancher Merchant Get access Emily Klancher Merchant, Building the Population Bomb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 312 pp. Aprajita Sarcar Aprajita Sarcar Laureate Centre for History and Population (UNSW), Sydney, Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, …
A demographer’s urban village
Neo-Malthusian population planning that links high fertility rate to poverty has been an area that has spawned vast and rich scholarship. In the Indian context, scholars have drawn continuities from late colonial birth control advocacy to the targeted sterilizations in 1975–1977. However, the different iterations of demographic transition theory in the 1950s–1970s are subsumed within a unilinear reading of underdevelopment during the Cold War. Th…
Buying Happiness
Reviewed by: Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada by Bettina Liverant Aprajita Sarcar Liverant, Bettina – Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 291. Buying Happiness traces transformations in Canadian consumers from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s. It is a long-range study that historicizes the moral economies of spending in this…
Memories of violence
This article engages with the messy streets of post-Partition Delhi. The author engages with a relatively understudied facet of the Partition: its impact on the everyday life of a city. Through physical sites which carried imprints of former inhabitants, to letters that refugees wrote to express their anxieties, the article constructs identities that were forged in the everyday life of Delhi. Questions of ownership, self-making, and governance he…
A Historical and Anthropological Comparative of the Family Planning Strategies of India and China
The article tracks the evolution of the family planning programmes in India and China and the conceptual linkages between the two. This comparison, in turn, serves as an entry point for studying the following: The role that the family plays in becoming the site of governance and deploying state-led capitalism in the two countries. The assumptions behind the development trajectories in both countries. What are the ways in which the policies amplif…
A demographer’s urban village
Neo-Malthusian population planning that links high fertility rate to poverty has been an area that has spawned vast and rich scholarship. In the Indian context, scholars have drawn continuities from late colonial birth control advocacy to the targeted sterilizations in 1975–1977. However, the different iterations of demographic transition theory in the 1950s–1970s are subsumed within a unilinear reading of underdevelopment during the Cold War. Th…
A Historical and Anthropological Comparative of the Family Planning Strategies of India and China
The article tracks the evolution of the family planning programmes in India and China and the conceptual linkages between the two. This comparison, in turn, serves as an entry point for studying the following: The role that the family plays in becoming the site of governance and deploying state-led capitalism in the two countries. The assumptions behind the development trajectories in both countries. What are the ways in which the policies amplif…
Memories of violence
This article engages with the messy streets of post-Partition Delhi. The author engages with a relatively understudied facet of the Partition: its impact on the everyday life of a city. Through physical sites which carried imprints of former inhabitants, to letters that refugees wrote to express their anxieties, the article constructs identities that were forged in the everyday life of Delhi. Questions of ownership, self-making, and governance he…
Buying Happiness
Reviewed by: Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada by Bettina Liverant Aprajita Sarcar Liverant, Bettina – Buying Happiness: The Emergence of Consumer Consciousness in English Canada. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2018. Pp. 291. Buying Happiness traces transformations in Canadian consumers from the late nineteenth century to the 1960s. It is a long-range study that historicizes the moral economies of spending in this…
A demographer’s urban village
Neo-Malthusian population planning that links high fertility rate to poverty has been an area that has spawned vast and rich scholarship. In the Indian context, scholars have drawn continuities from late colonial birth control advocacy to the targeted sterilizations in 1975–1977. However, the different iterations of demographic transition theory in the 1950s–1970s are subsumed within a unilinear reading of underdevelopment during the Cold War. Th…
Building the Population Bomb. Emily Klancher Merchant
Journal Article Building the Population Bomb. Emily Klancher Merchant Get access Emily Klancher Merchant, Building the Population Bomb. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 312 pp. Aprajita Sarcar Aprajita Sarcar Laureate Centre for History and Population (UNSW), Sydney, Australia [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, …
Circumventing the Nation
Historiography on late colonial public health governance in India has detailed the imprints of transnational funders, namely the Rockfeller Foundation and later, the Ford foundation on funding, research, and knowledge production around national programmes and personnel in India. The National Archives in India, is significantly thin on subjects like demography, reproductive policies and birth control technologies. Scholars have to necessarily rely…
Family planning as artefact
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Population (3 works)