of population growth in India, but the most recent indications are that some

success is being achieved in slowing the rate of population growth. The

progress which has been achieved to date is still only of a modest nature and

should not serve as premature cause for complacency. Moreover, a slowing of the

rate of population growth is not incompatible with a dangerous population

increase in a country like India which has so huge a population base to begin

with. Nevertheless, the most recent signs do offer some occasion for adopting a

certain degree of cautious optimism in regard to the problem.

One important factor which is responsible for viewing the future with

more optimism than may previously have been the case has been the increase in

the size of the middle class, a tendency which has been promoted by the current

tendency to ease restrictions on entrepreneurship and private investment. It is

a well-known fact that as persons become more prosperous and better educated

they begin to undertake measures designed to eliminate the size of their

families. (The obvious exception would be families lik

special reference to India (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1974).

state of Kerala which had long had a Communist-led government had for many years

In addition to the elimination of girl babies, either through outright

other areas of the Middle East, the only other countries which display a

instead, a so-called "bridal price" paid by the family of the groom. Thus,

uneducated sectors of the population who associate it with loss of virility or

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