Authored by Peter Jacobsen via The Daily Economy,
Before Zohran Mamdani burst onto the scene of NYC politics with promises of cheap groceries, rent control, and calls to seize the means of production, his father, Mahmood Mamdani, was making important political contributions himself. The elder Mamdani's work is more academic in nature and generally more interesting than the "free stuff" brand of left-wing politics.
A family welcomes a new baby in rural India. Shutterstock.In particular, Mahmood was decades ahead on one issue that other academics were getting extremely wrong in the 1970s - population.
In 1972, Mamdani published his book The Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste, and Class in an Indian Village. The book started with a (then) controversial claim: ecologist and popu
