Reproductive restraints : birth control in India, 1877-1947 / Sanjam Ahluwalia.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2008], ©2008.

xii, 251 pages ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-240) and index.

Demographic rhetoric and sexual surveillance : Indian middle-class advocates of birth control, 1877-1947 -- Global agenda and local politics : western advocates and discourse of birth control in colonial India, 1920s-40s -- Polyvocality, ambivalence, and negotiations : Indian middle-class feminism and debates on birth control in nationalist India, 1920s-40s -- A fractured discourse : colonial attitudes on birth control in the twentieth century -- Untrained "professionals" : medical practitioners and the politics of birth control in colonial India, 1920-47.