Population Aging

I S Gulati The Elderly in India by Kumudini Dandekar; Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996;
KUMUDINI DANDEKARS book, as its title makes clear, is about the aged in India, though the field work she uses to supplement her analysis of national level data available from secondary sources was done in Maharashtra, a state which very much resembles the average for India. Dandekar's study is not only extremely timely but also very relevant for policy purposes at the national level.