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As the World Ages is a superb book that brings together intellectual, institutional, and medical history to show how aging emerged as a global problem in the second half of the twentieth century. Ranging widely across sites and archives and scholarly fields, while rooted in a deep understanding of the Indian context, this will be essential reading for scholars across many disciplines, from public health to postcolonial history.--Sunil Amrith, author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants The academic discourse on aging has long been dominated by assumptions that privileged the West. Sivaramakrishnan's groundbreaking and well-researched history brilliantly unpacks these assumptions. It also drives home a fundamental distinction between the narratives of industrialization and globalization: the former promoted a stadial and homogenizing view of world history, the latter connects and yet highlights local differences. A thoughtful and impressive book.--Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference

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Kavita Sivaramakrishnan is Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University.

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