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{{short description|Indian sociologist, demographer and professor}}
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'''Alaka Malwade Basu''' (born 1952<ref>{{Cite news|last=Belkin|first=Lisa|date=27 November 2000|title=Guiltless Pleasures of Room Service and a Quiet Night, Blissfully Alone|work=[[The Journal Record]]|url=https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-5744034/guiltless-pleasures-of-room-service-and-a-quiet-night|via=[[Questia]]}}</ref>) is an Indian [[sociologist]] and [[demographer]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Desai|first=Sonalde|last2=Mehta|first2=Anupma|date=2017-03-08|title=No economy for women|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/no-economy-for-women/article17424207.ece|access-date=2020-11-20|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=2011-04-07|title=Seven brothers|work=[[The Economist]]|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2011/04/07/seven-brothers|access-date=2020-11-20|issn=0013-0613}}</ref> tenured as a professor of development sociology at the [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York]].<ref name=":0" /> Between 2002 and 2008, she was the director of the South Asia Program of Cornell University.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Alaka Basu|url=https://www.prb.org/people/alaka-basu/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=[[Population Reference Bureau]]|language=en-US}}</ref> She is a senior fellow for public health at the [[United Nations Foundation]] and a member of the editorial boards of the ''[[Population and Development Review]]'' and the ''Asian Population Studies''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Seidenberg|first=John|date=17 March 2016|title=Cornell scientists brief press on Zika virus in D.C.|url=https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/cornell-scientists-brief-press-zika-virus-dc|access-date=2020-11-20|website=[[Cornell Chronicle]]|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite journal|date=2017|title=Front Matter|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44202626|journal=Population and Development Review|volume=43|issue=1|issn=0098-7921|via=JSTOR}}</ref> She is also a member of the Lancet-Guttmacher Commission on sexual and reproductive health and rights.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|date=27 May 2020|others=Web Communications Office|title=The Puzzle of Rising Education, Later Marriage, and Dowry Persistence in India: A Demographic Analysis|url=https://events.cornell.edu/event/the_puzzle_of_rising_education_later_marriage_and_dowry_persistence_in_india_a_demographic_analysis_by_alaka_basu|website=[[Cornell University]]|language=en}}</ref> Basu has extensive publications in the fields of social demography, gender and development, and South Asian Studies.<ref name=":1" />

She was formerly a professor at the [[Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in [[New Delhi]] and at the [[Harvard School of Public Health]] in [[Massachusetts]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=Lamont|first=James|date=30 August 2011|title=India sees rise in one-child families|url=https://www.ft.com/content/fe158cc0-d2fd-11e0-9aae-00144feab49a|access-date=2020-11-20|website=[[Financial Times]]}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web|title=Alaka Basu|url=https://unfoundation.org/who-we-are/our-people/alaka-basu-2/|website=[[United Nations Foundation]]}}</ref> and the chairperson of the scientific committee on anthropological demography at the [[International Union for the Scientific Study of Population]] (IUSSP) and member of committees on population projections and reproductive health at the [[National Research Council (United States)|National Research Council]] of the [[National Academy of Sciences, United States]].<ref name=":3" /> She has also served in the governing boards of the [[Population Reference Bureau]] in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington, D.C]] and the [[Population Association of America]][[Washington, D.C.|.]]<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />

== Personal life ==
Alaka Malwade Basu is married to the economist [[Kaushik Basu]], who have one son, Karna Basu and one daughter, the writer and actor, [[Diksha Basu]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bakshi|first=Asmita|date=29 May 2017|title=The Traveller's Tale|work=[[India Today]]|url=https://www.pressreader.com/india/india-today/20170529/283850098297974|via=[[Pressreader]]}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

=== Books ===
*''Culture, the Status of Women, and Demographic Behaviour: Illustrated with the Case of India''. (1992) [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-19-828360-7}}.
*''Girls' Schooling, Women's Autonomy and Fertility Change in South Asia''. (eds. 1996; with Jeffery, Roger) [[SAGE Publications]]. {{ISBN|978-0-8039-9276-4}}.
*''The Methods and Uses of Anthropological Demography''. (eds. 1998; with Aaby, Peter) [[Oxford University Press]]. {{ISBN|978-0-19-158446-6}}.
*''The Sociocultural and Political Aspects of Abortion: Global Perspectives''. (eds. 2000) [[Greenwood Publishing Group]]. {{ISBN|978-0-275-97728-3}}.

=== Selected publications ===

* "Demography for the Public: Literary Representations of Population Research and Policy". (2004) ''[[Development and Change]]''. '''45''' (5): 813–837 [[ISSN (identifier)|ISSN]] 1467-7660.
* "Hopes, dreams and anxieties: India's one-child families". (2006) ''[[Asian Population Studies]]''. '''12''' (1): 4–27. [[ISSN (identifier)|ISSN]] 1744-1730. [[PMC (identifier)|PMC]] 4869707. [[PMID (identifier)|PMID]] 27200106
* "Zika, Sex and Reproductive Health". (2015) ''[[Economic and Political Weekly]]''. 51 (9): 7–8.

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