Syed Mohammed Talha says he is proud that his seven-year-old daughter attends a prestigious Montessori school in India’s national capital region.
The school is expensive, with annual fees at 255,000 rupees ($3,113), but the Muslim businessman says he is happy he can afford it.
“If I had a second child I couldn’t have afforded to send them both to this school,” said Talha, 42, who lives in Noida, a satellite city adjoining New Delhi.
“Having just one child allows us to be focused on her, give her a good education, lots of facilities, there are many benefits.”
Talha’s pleasure in having a small family underlines a growing trend among India’s minority Muslims, long known for large families with the highest population growth rate across India’s religious communities.
With India set to overtake China and become the world’s most populous…
