Johnson refused to provide food aid to India-at the time threatened by famine-until it agreed to incentivize sterilization. The international push was so extreme that in 1965, President Lyndon B. 3 The Western countries’ lobby backed the sterilization program after the Emergency was imposed, even when her own advisers were unwilling to support it. ![]() In fact, Indira Gandhi was pressed by Western democracies to implement a crash sterilization program to control India’s population. ![]() The World Bank gave the Indian government a loan of US $66 million dollars between 19 for sterilization. Among all the Asian and Sub-Saharan African countries, India’s family planning program received the biggest chunk of international aid. This essay is an account of how the issue of mass sterilization became politicized during India’s Emergency.įamily planning in India, from its inception in 1951 to its peak in 1977, should be seen in the wider context of the campaign to control world population. 2 In the 1970s, mass sterilization got mired in the major political dilemma facing India, “the Emergency”-a twenty-one-month-long period widely considered the darkest in post-1947 Indian history. 1 Although sterilization has produced the desired outcome-fertility rates dropped from 3.4 in the 1990s to 2.2 in 2016-it has also seen its share of controversies. According to the United Nations, India alone was responsible for 37 percent of the world’s female sterilization in 2011. In order to limit its population growth rate, India has been using sterilization as a method of population control since 1951. In June 2017, the United Nations reported that India’s population will rise to 1.5 billion by 2050. Overpopulation has been India’s major concern for almost five decades. Re-envisioning Asia: Contestations and Struggles in the Visual Arts.Distinguished Service to the Association for Asian Studies Award.Distinguished Contributions to Asian Studies Award.Striving for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Asian Studies: Humanities Grants for Asian Studies Scholars.Gosling-Lim Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies.Cultivating the Humanities & Social Sciences Initiative Grants.Key Issues in Asian Studies Book Series.AAS Takes Action to Build Diversity & Equity in Asian Studies. ![]()
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