<i>So, India is actually close to stabilizing its population and far from exploding, and this has been achieved without a draconian one-child policy or coercive contraception</i><p>I believe you can say the emergency, and the coerced contraception were <i>irrelevant</i>, but can you really say they didn't <i>happen</i>?<p><a href="https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html</a><p>What is the authors intented meaning?