Demographics

Southward Ho! Demographic Change, the North-South Divide and Internal Migration in India

There are indeed demographic and development differences between the North and the South, but concerns about labour migration to the South are not warranted since the movement of labour is an…
▶29-Aug-2024
Chetan Choithani, Arslan Wali Khan

India’s Fertility Transition and Differences between Religious Groups

‘Overpopulation’ can no longer be a concern in India, as across states and across religious groups fertility has been falling in recent decades and approaching replacement level. Fears about a…
▶01-Nov-2021
K. S. James, Md Juel Rana

Has the US Dodged the Rise of Far-Right Politics?

Despite Donald Trump’s defeat, the politics of the far-right maintains its presence in the US polity; but the results of the 2020 election also underscore the potential power of a multiracial working…
▶21-Dec-2020
Sara Duvisac, Avanti Mukherjee

Muslim politics and the 2020 Bihar Election

The story of the Muslim vote in Bihar is not the triumph of the AIMIM, but the strong desire of the Muslim voter in both majority and minority areas across the state to express herself against the…
▶02-Dec-2020
Julien Levesque