References
- Family Welfare Programme in Tamil Nadu Year Book 1989–1990 Demographic and Evaluation Cell, State Family Welfare Bureau; Directorate of Medical and Rural Health Services, Madras.
- For information about family planning during the Emergency, see. D.R. Gwatkin. Political will and family planning: the implications of India’s Emergency experience. Population and Development Review. 5(1): 1979; 29–59.
- J.E. Kocher. Population policy in India: recent developments and current prospects. Population and Development Review. 6(2): 1980; 299–310.
- D.L. Nortman. India’s new birth rate target: an analysis. Population and Development Review. 4(2): 1978; 277–312.
- See CREA Tamil-English Dictionary.
- SRS data. 1996; Government of India, Registrar General of Census, Ministry of Home Affairs: Delhi.
- See, for example. A. Sen. Population policy: authoritarianism versus cooperation. John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Lecture Series on Population Issues, New Delhi. 1995. Cited in reference 6.
- See. P. Swaminathan. The Failures of Success? An Analysis of Tamil Nadu’s Recent Demographic Experience. Working Paper No 141. 1996; Madras Institute of Development Studies: Madras.
- T.K.S. Ravindran Factors impeding quality of care: rural poor women’s experiences with MCH/FP services in Tamil Nadu Paper presented at Ford Foundation/ Population Council Workshop on Quality of Care in the Indian Family Planning Programme. Bangalore, May 1995,
- All statements quoted in this paper were in Tamil and translated into English unless noted as originally being in English.
- Demographer, Tamil Nadu Department of Family Welfare, Madras, personal communication.
- Madras has recently changed its name back to its original name Chernnai; it was still called Madras when I began my research.
- Corporation hospitals mentioned in this study are small public hospitals, established to carry out family planning as part of MCH programmes, under a programme funded by the World Bank. Gosha Hospital (official name Kasthurba Gandhi Hospital) is the largest, government-funded maternity hospital in Madras.
- Personnel from the Ford Foundation, UNICEF, WHO, and the USAID-sponsored Programme for International Training in Health in Delhi.
- All names are pseudonyms unless otherwise indicated.
- Public health nurse, Santhome Corporation Hospital, personal communication.
- Quotes are from medical practitioners in the Corporation hospitals in Madras and Chengalpattu Medical College Medical Hospital, where I was given access to health workers. No one from Gosha Hospital is included as I was not given access, but testimonies from two doctors who previously worked in Gosha Hospital are included.
- A Short Account on the Status of IUD Users and Service Delivery System in Tamil Nadu Madras. Working Women’s Forum. 1996
- IPP-V Santhome Zone Information Booklet. 1994–1995. (Unpublished internal report).
- Information about these two meetings is from WWF organisers. 12 December 1995
- Birthrate: southern states complimented The Hindu. 9 March 1995
- Incentives for population programme to go The Hindu. 24 December 1995