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Female Infanticide in Tamil Nadu: Some Evidence
This paper reports and discusses evidence from a field survey on the existence of the practice of female infanticide in Tamil Nadu. Primary health centre records analysed provide strong corroborative evidence that the phenomenon is not, as earlier thought, confined to a few blocks of Madurai and Sal...
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