Family Planning Communication in India: The Actors and the Acts

This book is the first systematic study on the historiography of the family planning communication process in India. It traces the history of the development of a highly technical health communication process.

Shashwati Goswami is Professor and Head of the Department of Communication Research at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi, India. Previously, as a communication professional, she has been associated with India’s national radio broadcaster, the All India Radio and BBC Media Action. As a media academic, she has received varied grants and fellowships from numerous research and academic organisations, including Panos South Asia, Rockefeller Archive Centre, New York and E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, Ohio University. Her areas of research and teaching are political economy of media, gender and media, health communication and development and conflict-zone journalism. She has been an alumnus of Jawaharlal Nehru University (PhD), University of Delhi (MA) and Cotton College, Gauhati University (BA Hons).