Perhaps this is the first ever comprehensive volume which has covered many aspects of the relationship between modernization and fertility. The uniqueness of this study is its incisive and in-depth analysis of the impact of modernization simultaneously with fertility, sex-wise children living, child survival ratio, sex-wise ideal children and the selection of 4 modernity indices (in-house, out-house consumer durables, media exposure and housing quality) on proximate determinant and an attitudinal index for less and more modern segments in rural and urban samples of a more developed state (Maharashtra) and a less developed state (Uttar Pradesh).

In the area of the study of the relationship between modernization and fertility, this is the only study which has defined completed and incompleted fertility and came out with a significant finding that the inverse relationship between modernization and fertility is stronger in respect of incompleted fertility.

The major and also distinguishable findings which have thrown light on the hitherto unexplored areas are:

(i) owing in-house consumer durables has greater influence in suppressing fertility that out-house consumer durables (ii) the inverse relationship between modernization and fertility is stronger in respect of incompleted fertility than completed fertility and (iii) the modernity indices, attitudinal index and the proximate determinant are found to be having varying effect when their influence on fertility was analysed by background variables (place of residence, religion, literacy status and scheduled tribe and non-scheduled tribe population).

This book contains valuable material on Population explosion and poverty; population growth and development; Population development-environment syndrome; Habitat related problems; and reassessing population etc.

This book will prove an authoritative source book.

Human population pressure and control methods; Population advocacy vulnerable group and human regeneration; Population environment and development; Population, consumption and threatened resources; and Combating poverty and implementing sustainability etc. are the major topics X-rayed in this book.

Scholars, academics in the field besides environmental scientists, activists, policy planners and administrators will find this book most useful and informative.

Studies in Demography, is an attempt to make the subject-matter more useful by providing latest data, figures and explanation. Not only this, total thirty-one chapters are grouped in six such sections which can help readers to select the desired subject matter (related) in one section. These six sections are: Introduction; Theories of Population; Demographic Measurements; Population Dynamics: India's Population Profile; (5) Population Profile of World, and (6) Population and Resources.

Three more chapters' viz. Population Region of World; Population Region of India; and Natural Resources, Level of Technology, Livestock; and Labour Force/Economic Activity Ratio have been added, which will fetch the need of students of economics and geography. Not only has this, a separate section on Mortality Influencing Population Policy, been widely discussed. This completes the analysis of population policy long needed supported by recent developments in the field. The text of every chapter has been significantly revised.

Undoubtedly, this will serve as an ideal text and reference book to one and all concerned.