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The Life and Works of a
Demographer: An Autobiography. 1999. by Chidambara Chandrasekaran. New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill.
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Chandrasekaran was active promoter of family planning policies in India and at least on one occasion advised
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See also John C. Caldwell review of the book published in
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