By using data on the height and weight of Indians, measured in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for commercial or scientific reasons, the studies in this book trace trends in rural well-being in North and South India over time, and consider the comparative well-being of different groups of men and women. It also addresses questions of infant and child health, and examines the influence of reservation for social groups on the physical markers of well-being.
Preface—Introduction—Toward an Anthropometric History of Indians under British Rule—Long term Change in Indian Health —Changes in the Stature of North Indians from British Rule to Early Independence—The ‘Inverted U’ Hypothesis: Evidence from Indian Height Data—Caste, Inequality and the Nation-State: The Impact of Reservation Policies in India, c.1950-2000 —Long Term-change and Sex-Differences in the Heights of Afro –Caribbeans and Indo-Caribbeans —A Long-run Decline in Final Adult Female Height in India?—Teenage Births and Final Adult Height of Mothers in India, 1988-1999—A Statistical Study of Malnutrition: The Puzzle of Wasting —Infant Feeding Practices and Chronic Child Malnutrition in the Indian States of Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh —Conclusion—Permission to re-publish—Bibliography—Index
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