"The scholarship that the manuscript imbibes is outstanding. It engages with critical debates in the field of citizenship, rights, social justice, equality, modernity and the state from a bottom-up approach Drawing on ethnographic material from North Indiait offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights." - Jeevan R. Sharma, University of Edinburgh, UK
"This rich and nuanced book draws upon a long ethnographic engagement in North India to skilfully situate finely observed accounts of womens reproductive experiences within a wider field of development and state agencies, power and politics. It constitutes a powerful and unique empirical and theoretical contribution - of relevance to medical anthropology but speaking also to vital debates in public health and development practice about framings, evidence and social justice." - Hayley MacGregor, Institute for Development Studies, UK "The scholarship that the manuscript imbibes is outstanding. It engages with critical debates in the field of citizenship, rights, social justice, equality, modernity and the state from a bottom-up approach Drawing on ethnographic material from North Indiait offers both new empirical data and new theoretical insights." - Jeevan R. Sharma, University of Edinburgh, UK
"This rich and nuanced book draws upon a long ethnographic engagement in North India to skilfully situate finely observed accounts of womens reproductive experiences within a wider field of development and state agencies, power and politics. It constitutes a powerful and unique empirical and theoretical contribution - of relevance to medical anthropology but speaking also to vital debates in public health and development practice about framings, evidence and social justice." - Hayley MacGregor, Institute for Development Studies, UK