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The Difficult Conversation Around Population in India
India became independent in 1947 and a few years later, I think in 1952 or so, India became the first country in the world to adopt a formal policy of family planning. The population has doubled since 1950 to what it is now, but it was obviously very high even in 1950. And that policy continued for the next couple of decades until the emergency in the 1970s. When of course, as we mentioned earlier, the forced sterilization that happened.
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