Changing scope of Demography 1957-2006: Learning from Reflection on the Research at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India

The scope of demography as a discipline has witnessed several changes in last five to six decades to match the issues pertaining to growth, distribution and welfare of population. India, with a huge population size coupled with enormous socioeconomic, cultural and regional heterogeneity has long been one of the most legendary laboratories for demographers across the world towards understanding the complex theories in Demography and Population Studies. This change has also been experienced among Indian Demographers and research institutions like International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India which has contributed immensely in India’s Demographic and Population research in last fifty years. This article tries to trace the changes in the research areas conducted at IIPS, and associate these changes with changing scope of demography based on historical content analyses of the IIPS researches conducted during 1957-2007.