Essays on population and space in India
Indian territory, from regional to local level, remains a fundamentally composite space, divided into varying segments of more homogeneous appearance. Closer analysis shows that these segments are themselves subdivided and that spaces and resources are unequally shared and often disputed among social groups. The chapters in this volume, each in its own way, illustrate the ubiquity of oppositions running across the regions, irrespective of the level of analysis chosen. The resulting image of In...
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Published with the support of the Espace-Populations-Sociétés, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, U.F.R. de Géographie (Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France)
Éditeur : Institut Français de Pondichéry
Lieu d’édition : Pondichéry
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 28 septembre 2021
ISBN numérique : 979-10-365-6662-2
DOI : 10.4000/books.ifp.9693
Collection : Collection Sciences Sociales | 5
Année d’édition : 2000
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-81-8470-097-8
Nombre de pages : 256
Christophe Z. Guilmoto et Alain Vaguet
Introduction : Spatial Contexts and Social ChangePart I. Demographic trends
Jacques Véron
1. Demographic Transition in IndiaChristophe Z. Guilmoto
2. The Geography of Fertility in India (1981-1991)Part II. Rural and urban poles
Hélène Guetat-Bernard
3. Diversification of Economic Activities in Rural India : Some Contrasting TrendsFrédéric Landy et Jean-Luc Racine
5. Urban Growth and Village Roots in IndiaPart III. Features of Indian urbanization
Graham P. Chapman et Pushpa Pathak
6. Indian Urbanization and the Characteristics of Large Indian Cities Revealed in the 1991 CensusVéronique Dupont
8. The “Rurbans” of DelhiPart IV. Health and epidemics in Cities
Emmanuel Eliot
9. Diffusion of HIV in MumbaiFlorence Rihouey
10. Emergence of New Health Care Networks in IndiaHyderabad, a Centre of Innovation
Part V. Women and minorities
Peter J. Atkins, J G. Townsend, Saraswati Raju et al.
11. A Geography of the Sex Ratio in IndiaGilles Boquérat
12. Geopolitics of Refugee Flows in IndiaLuc de Golbéry et Anne Chappuis
13. Underprivileged Minorities in India : Dalits and TribalsA Cartographic Approach
Indian territory, from regional to local level, remains a fundamentally composite space, divided into varying segments of more homogeneous appearance. Closer analysis shows that these segments are themselves subdivided and that spaces and resources are unequally shared and often disputed among social groups. The chapters in this volume, each in its own way, illustrate the ubiquity of oppositions running across the regions, irrespective of the level of analysis chosen. The resulting image of India is that of a complex and fast evolving system characterized by strong social and historical Patterning as well as extensive spatial recombination.
This collection of essays, first published in France in 1997 and based on abundant cartographic materials, brings together a selection of studies by geographers and other social scientists on India, covering a large variety of topics : population dynamics, rural-urban linkages, spatial discrimination, health issues, minorities, etc. These varied research interests open a large number of areas related to spatial organization in India, integrating demographic, economic and anthropological questions and illustrate the relevance of an informed geographical perspective for the study of social transformation in India.
The authors would readily agree on the modesty which these essays are bound to evidence, so rich and embedded is the fabric of Indian space. Readers henceforth have more material to form, in their turn, new images reflecting contemporary India and its transitional geography.
Christophe Z. Guilmoto (dir.)
Christophe Z. Cuilmoto is a demographer with IRD (French Research Institute for Development)
Alain Vaguet (dir.)
Alain Vaguet teaches geography at Rouen University, France.
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