Abstract
This article is based on an analytic review of two major policy responses to the increasing demographic salience of older adults in India. Set against the backdrop of anti‐natal family policies in India, the review focuses on two policy measures: the discontinuation of the earlier pension scheme alongside the commencement of the National Pension Scheme in 2004 and the enactment of The Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007. The analysis of these policies reveals the Indian state’s increasing reliance on multiple forms of familialism and is indicative of the direction of family policy making in India. This review also indicates a need for specifying and critically engaging with such forms of familialism within the broader rubric of emerging family policies in the Asian context.