5. Reframing Female Infanticide: The Emerging Nation

2020 ◽  
pp. 149-178
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2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mona Arora

India has an age old fascination with the boy child and considers the birthof a girl as a bad investment in future. A girl is considered to be consumer ratherthan a producer, and this narrow viewpoint of the Indian patriarchal society haslead to horrid practices like female infanticide and female foeticide. There is societal pressure for women to have male children and failurestend to feel guilty after giving birth to a girl. Such women are at risk of beingbeaten and rejected by their husbands. This can even lead to rejection by in -lawsand by the society as a whole. Keeping in view the above discourse the presentpaper aims to study the attitude of society towards female foeticide.


1834 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-199
Author(s):  
Alexander Burnes

As the following remarks by a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society may be considered an appropriate introduction to this subject, they are here prefixed.I Have perused with attention the report on Hindú Infanticide in Cutch, by Mr. Burnes, affording evidence of the assiduity which marks all his researches.Its publication in our Journal I should judge every way desirable; for it calls the notice of the public to the circumstance that the total suppression of this practice has not been effected; and we cannot aspire to higher merit than in laudably exerting ourselves to the promotion of such public measures as may tend to the well-doing of our fellow-creatures.


1984 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 1207-1212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Jeffery ◽  
Patricia Jeffery ◽  
Andrew Lyon
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Author(s):  
Ravinder Pal Singh ◽  
Megha Pravin Khobragade ◽  
Anil Kumar ◽  
Achhelal Ramashankar Pasi

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