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{{Short description|Indian demographer and economist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Use Indian English|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox person
| name = P. B. Desai
| birth_name = Prasannavadan Bhagwanji Desai
| birth_date = 2 October 1924
| birth_place = [[Chikhli, Gujarat|Chikhli]], [[Gujarat]], [[India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|11 November 1994|2 October 1924}}
| death_place = [[Ahmedabad]], Gujarat, India
| occupation = Professor
| title = Director, [[Institute of Economic Growth]], [[New Delhi]]
| spouse = Lina Desai
}}
'''Professor P. B. Desai''' (1924–1994) was an Indian demographer and economist. He was director of the [[Institute of Economic Growth]] (IEG) in [[New Delhi]] from 1974 to 1976. He headed the Population Research Center at the institute for many years.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Growth (India) |first=Institute of Economic |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3vEf-ZFiNOkC |title=IEG at Fifty: Recollections, Retrospect and Prospect |date=2008 |publisher=Academic Foundation |isbn=978-81-7188-675-3 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Bose |first=Ashish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YWBopUaCBZUC |title=Headcount: Memoirs of a Demographer |date=2010 |publisher=Penguin Books India |isbn=978-0-670-08351-0 |language=en}}</ref>

Desai also served as honorary director of Centre for Parliamentarians on Population and Development in New Delhi. He was founder-member of Indian Society for the Study of Population (IASP), and its president from 1977 to 1979. He was editor of the journal Demography India from its inception in 1972 to 1980, and editor-in-chief from 1980 to 1987. Desai was [[Rapporteur|Rapporteur General]] at the [[United Nations world population conferences|United Nations world population conference]] in [[Bucharest]] in 1974. Other associations included those with [[Planning Commission (India)|Planning Commission of India]], [[Ministry of Health and Family Welfare]], [[National Institute of Urban Affairs]], Delhi Planning Board, Family Planning Foundation of India and International Review Group on Social Science Research. He additionally served as a fellow at [[University of Michigan]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan|Ann Arbor]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xqSXGaZfLwC |title=Demography India |date=1993 |language=en}}</ref>

After retirement from IEG, Desai worked in Peace Research Center at [[Gujarat Vidyapith]] in [[Ahmedabad]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Frankel |first=Stephen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzEQAQAAMAAJ |title=The Community Health Worker: Effective Programmes for Developing Countries |date=1992 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-262236-5 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_lFAAAAYAAJ |title=International Population Conference, New Delhi 1989, 20–27 September |date=1989 |publisher=International Union for the Scientific Study of Population |isbn=978-2-87108-016-9 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book | author=Indian Council of Social Science Research |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OGdXAAAAYAAJ |title=ICSSR Newsletter |date=1986 |language=en}}</ref>

==Works==
• [[V. K. R. V. Rao|V.K.R.V. Rao]], P. B. Desai. Greater Delhi A Study in Urbanization 1940-1957. Bombay, Asia Publishing House, 1965.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Rao |first1=V. K. R. V. |url=https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/109681 |title=Greater Delhi: a study in urbanisation, 1940-1957 |last2=Desai |first2=Prasannavadan B. |date=1965 |publisher=Asia Pub. House |others=Institute of Economic Growth (India) |location=Bombay, New York}}</ref>

• Size and Sex Composition of Population in India 1901-1961. P. B. Desai. Published by Asia Publishing House, 1969.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=Prasannavadan Bhagwanji |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=twMvAAAAMAAJ |title=Size and Sex Composition of Population in India, 1901-1961 |date=1969 |publisher=Asia Publishing House |isbn=978-0-210-22213-3 |language=en}}</ref>

• Studies in Demography, [[Ashish Bose]], P. B. Desai, and S. P. Jain (eds), Chapel Hill, Univ of North Carolina Press, 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Studies in Demography {{!}} Ashish Bose |url=https://uncpress.org/book/9780807873038/studies-in-demography/ |access-date=2023-02-27 |website=University of North Carolina Press |language=en-US}}</ref>

• Regional perspective of industrial and urban growth: the case of Kanpur. Papers and proceedings of the International Seminar on Urban and Industrial Growth of Kanpur Region January 29 to February 4, 1967. Chief editor: P. B. Desai; associate editors: I. M. Grossack [and] K. N. Sharma. Published by MacMillan, 1969.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.bucl.in/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=17933 |title=Regional perspective of industrial and urban growth |date=1969 |publisher=Macmillan |editor-last=Grossack |editor-first=I. M. |location=Bombay |editor-last2=Sharma |editor-first2=K. N. |editor-last3=Desai |editor-first3=P. B.}}</ref>

• P. B Desai. A survey of research in demography: A project sponsored by the Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Desai |first1=Pandurang Bhimarao |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xcw5AAAAIAAJ |title=A Survey of Research in Demography |last2=Desai |first2=Prasannavadan Bhagwanji |date=1975 |publisher=Popular Prakashan |language=en}}</ref>

• Studies in Social Dynamics of Primary Health Care. Ashish Bose, P. B. Desai. Published by Springer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bose |first=Ashish |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=45sLAQAAIAAJ |title=Studies in Social Dynamics of Primary Health Care |date=1983 |publisher=Hindustan Publishing Corporation (India) |isbn=978-0-391-02959-0 |language=en}}</ref>

• Population in the Context of India's Development With Special Reference to Population Education. Prasannavadan Bhagwanji Desai. Published by UGC-UNFPA Project, Task Force on Curriculum Development, Population Education Resource Centre, Department of Adult & Continuing Education & Extension Work, Gujarat Vidyapith. 1987.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=Prasannavadan Bhagwanji |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cv_rAAAAMAAJ |title=Population in the Context of India's Development: With Special Reference to Population Education |date=1987 |publisher=UGC-UNFPA Project, Task Force on Curriculum Development, Population Education Resource Centre, Department of Adult & Continuing Education & Extension Work, Gujarat Vidyapith |language=en}}</ref>

• Report of the Orientation Programme for Maharashtra Legislators on Population and Development. Prasannavadan Bhagwanji Desai. Published by Indian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development. 1991.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=Prasannavadan Bhagwanji |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B98fAAAAIAAJ |title=Report of the Orientation Programme for Maharashtra Legislators on Population and Development |date=1991 |publisher=Indian Association of Parliamentarians on Population and Development |language=en}}</ref>

• Planning in India, 1951-1978. By P. B. Desai. Published by Vikas Publishing House. 1979.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Desai |first1=P. B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3AguAAAAMAAJ |title=Planning in India, 1951-1978 |last2=Desai |first2=Prasannavadan Bhagwanji |date=1979 |publisher=Vikas Publishing House |isbn=978-0-7069-0832-9 |language=en}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Desai was a [[Gandhians|Gandhian]] and a freedom fighter. He was jailed for about 10 months during the [[Indian independence movement]], including in solitary confinement for some time.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== References ==

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[[Category:Indian demographers]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian economists]]
[[Category:Indian scholars]]
[[Category:1924 births]]
[[Category:1994 deaths]]
[[Category:Indian independence activists from Gujarat]]
[[Category:20th-century Indian statisticians]]

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