In 1948 he went to Paris and served as director of demographic research for UNESCO. In June 1947 he married Ann Downes, an American Quaker from New Jersey, and shortly thereafter returned to India to accept an appointment as professor and chair of the Economics Department at Annamalai University. promoting India's political independence from Great Britain. From 1945 to 1947 he traveled around the U.S. in Sociology from New York University, having written his dissertation on India's population problems.Īfter completing his education, he lectured on India's economic and social problems at The University of Pennsylvania, and in 1945 worked as an expert in Indian demography for the U.S. In 1940 he traveled to New York City and attended Columbia University and New York University, where he studied demography, sociology, and statistics. "From then on," Chandrasekhar said, "I lived and breathed demography." In 1938 he graduated with a B.A. He attended Vorhees High School in Vellore, India, and Madras Presidency College, where he wrote his first paper on India's population problems. Many of his views were considered controversial, and he often faced considerable opposition, particularly in rural areas of the country where large families were seen as an economic necessity.Ĭhandrasekhar, or Chandra as he was known to friends, was born in 1918 in Rajahmundry, India, one of six children of Sripati Sarangapani and Bavanula Rajamma Rao. He supported abortion for women and sterilization for men, and promoted artificial birth control methods and the use of contraceptives such as the pill and IUD. He struggled to educate the Indian people on family planning methods, particularly striving to spread the word to the remote villages throughout the country. He spent his life advocating population control for his native India, because he believed that was the best way to improve the country's economy and protect its fragile hold on democracy. Sripati Chandrasekhar was a well-known international demographer, economist, sociologist, and scholar. Indian Institute for Population Studies and Population Reviewīibliography of Dr. Photographs, Photographic Materials, & Audio-visual material Miscellaneous biographical and personal materialīook reviews, press summaries, and publishers' blurbs General/Professional, arranged by subjectĪwards, certificates, honorary degrees, and other honors General/Professional, arranged chronologically Canaday Center for Special Collections may reserve the right to intervene as intermediary at its own discretion.Ĭompleted by: Kimberly Brownlee, David Chelminski, Mary Koslovsky, & Bea Bridenbaugh, 2002-2007īrief Chronology of Dr. Researchers bear full legal responsibility for the acquisition to publish from any part of said collection per Title 17, United States Code. Provenance: Gift of Sheila Chandrasekhar, San Diego, California, 2002Ĭopyright: The literary rights to this collection are assumed to rest with the person(s) responsible for the production of the particular items within the collection, or with their heirs or assigns.
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