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The Reproduction and Child Health policy (RCH) in India has been in force since 1995. Coming after the Cairo conference, 1994, the RCH was expected to usher in  ‘paradigm shift’ in India’s population policy. From a family welfare programme that has historically been top-down, even coercive, the Indian government projected the RCH to be a participatory, women-centered reproductive health service. Ironically, the policy was devised barely four years after the start of Indian State’s tryst with the market development, and was launched into a political environment in ideological transition.

This book provides a political analysis of RCH policy, tracking how neo-liberal and purportedly, women-centered reproductive health discourses are positioned against each other.