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Discuss the socio-cultural factors for the declining sex-ratio in some states of India.

  • UPSC 2010
  • Population Dynamics

The decline is not national but regionally concentrated: Census 2011 recorded child sex ratios of 834 in Haryana and 846 in Punjab against 964 in Kerala and 970 in Mizoram. The question is therefore not why India discriminates, but why these states do — and the answer lies in a particular combination of kinship, agrarian…

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  • The Green Revolution belt
  • Kinship as the underlying grammar
  • Deliberate discrimination inside the family
  • Regional dowry cultures and the diffusion of technology
  • The contrast cases
  • Conclusion

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