I. Fertility Levels and Trends
1. Levels and Trends in Fertility and Mortality in South Asia: A Review of Recent Evidence, Andrew Kantner and Shi-Jen He
2. Birth Rates and Trends in India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan: A Long Comparative View, Tim Dyson
3. Comparison of Fertility Estimates from India's Sample Registration System and the 1992--93 National Family Health Survey, R. L. Narasimhan, Robert D. Retherford, Vinod Mishra, Fred Arnold, and T. K. Roy
4. Fertility Decline in Nepal, Martine Collumbien, Ian M. Timaeus, and Laxmi Acharya
5. Fertility Decline in Sri Lanka: Could Fertility Now Be at about Replacement Level, C. M. Langford
6. Family Planning in Pakistan: A Turning Point, Abdul Hakim and Peter C. Miller
7. Trends in Fertility and Contraceptive Use in Bangladesh, Juliet McEachran and Ian Diamond
II. Explanations
8. A Cross-Border Comparison of Reproductive Behaviour Among the Punjabi and Bengali Communities of South Asia, B. M. Ramesh
9. Sythesizing Diverse Interpretations of Reproductive Change in India, Monica Das Gupta
10. Women's Autonomy and Reproductive Behaviour in India, Shireen J. Jejeebhoy
11. The Relative Roles of Gender and Development in Explaining Fertility in Rural Punjab, Shahnaz Kazi and Zeba A. Sathar
12. The Effect of Micro-Credit Programmes on the Reproductive Behaviour of Women in Rural Bangladesh, Abdullahel Hadi, Samir R. Nath, A. M. R. Chowdhury
13. Son Preference in South Asia, Fred Arnold
14. Son Preference and the Dynamics of Fertility Decision Making among Women and Husbands in Rural Nepal, Sharon Stash
III. The Role of Policy
15. Intellectual Origins of Post-World War II Population Policies in South Asia, Paul Demeny
16. Common Beginnings but Different Outcomes: The Family Planning Programmes of Pakistan and Bangladesh, Warren C. Robinson
17. Determinants of the Fertility Transition in Bangladesh, Barkat-e-Khuda, John C. Caldwell, Bruce K. Caldwell, Indrani Pieris, Pat Caldwell, and Shameem Ahmed
18. Population Policy Implications of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), Anrudh Jain
19. Prospects for Fertility Decline and Implications for Population Growth in South Asia, John Bongaarts and Sajeda Amin