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1978 there were 11 1. Cou-ples who produce, say, three sons stop having children, but those with three daughters continue until they get boys.
The Freeds have little faith that either further economic progress or the creation of a social security program would stem India's population growth. "Indians do not believe that the government or anyone but their sons will take care of them when they are old." Yet, if Indians do not change voluntarily, the Freeds say, the government may feel com-...

by Maurice G. Baxter
Harvard, 1984
646 pp. $25

by Henry Ashby Turner, Jr.
Oxford, 1985
504 pp. $25

edited by Paul Rabinow
Pantheon, 1985, 390 pp.
$19.95 cloth; $9.95 paper

by Richard Marius
Knopf, 1984
562 pp. $22.95

by Richard Madsen
Univ. of Calif., 1985
283 pp. $24.50

by Carman St. John Hunter
and David Hal-man
McGraw-Hill, 1985
224 pp. $8.95

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