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S. Irudaya Rajan is an Associate Fellow at the centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He is a lead author of the book, India's Elderly: Burden or Challenge? (1999) published by Sage Publications. Another publication, 'An Aging India: Perspectives, Prospects and Policies', a new book edited by Irudaya Rajan and Phoebe Liebing of Andrus Geronntology Centre, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, has just been released by Haworth Press, USA. Currently, he is coordinating two major research projects, Care of the Elderly and Healthy Ageing. He has co-authored/co-edited several books as well as articles in national and international journals.

Dr. K.S. James is Deputy Director, at the Population Research Centre, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, India. Previously, he had worked as Fellow at Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad and also as a visiting Fellow at Harvard Center for Population and Development, USA. He is one among the few demographers in India who have utilized ecclesiastical registers as source of data to understand demographic and social history. His current areas of interest centre around population and health in relation to socio-economic development. He has published several papers in national and international journals.