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The entitled, 'Population Ecology and Family Planning' is a very painstaking study of population and family planning in the districts of Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh. The author has laid hands on selected topics like material used, area and people, ethnographic profile of Kinnaura, socio-economic characteristics, marriage, polyandry, menarche, menopause and reproductive life span, population structure and characteristics, fertility, mortality, natural selection, family planning, health structure with a comparative temperament in other Indian and foreign states.
 
The book presents material of different sources on demographic anthropology which is difficult to collect and compile. It also compiles definitions and methodologies of population analysis. It also presents data and diagrams making the study easy and presentable. Convincing statistics have been presented. The subject content and treatment is keenly knowledgeable and understandable. Chapter on Family Planning, which is a burning topic of the day is well reproduced with complete family planning methods in practice in India and specially in district Kinnaura.

Students and research scholars face several problems in the study of demographic anthropology. Full attention has been paid to these difficulties and make the subject most interesting and understandable. The book is designed for the students of anthropology, biology, demography, economics, geography, political science, population studies, sociology, medicine, and public health, health management.

The government planners and policy makers can use the book as guidelines on the subject dealt in the book and the data and diagrams presented. Health indicators set for Kinnaur District can be useful for District Administration specially for the Government of Himachal Pradesh.

The book will be a useful collection of every library and information center for its demography and anthropology, as well as for Health section.