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Aprajita Sarcar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Laureate Centre for Population History at the University of New South Wales. She specializes in the intersection of governance, population control policies, and reproductive politics in postcolonial India. Her doctoral research, conducted at Queen's University, Canada, examined the notion of the nuclear family in the context of developmental planning from 1954-1977, exploring how small family norms emerged as an aspiration in postcolonial India. Sarcar's work integrates historiography with global population planning and urban histories, emphasizing mixed-method research to illuminate the lived experiences of individuals in relation to national health programs. Her academic interests also include colonial history, medicine, gender, nationalism, and the built environment's role in modernity and population planning. Aprajita has contributed to several publications, discussing population policies and their implications in South Asia, and has been recognized with various grants and scholarships throughout her academic career.
Laureate Centre for Population History • Sydney, Australia
Research focus on population control policies and governance in postcolonial India.
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