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Edited by Tulsi Patel. 432 pp. New Delhi, India, Sage Publications, 2007. $31.95. ISBN 978-0-7619-3539-1.

The numbers speak for themselves. In India in 2001, there were 921 girls born for every 1000 boys. In some Indian states, the ratio was lower still — 793 girls for every 1000 boys in Punjab, for example — and census data from 1901 to the present show that in recent years the disparity has been getting worse, not better. In 2001 alone, the imbalance represented more than 5 million missing Indian baby girls.

The reasons for the discrepancy seem as clear as the data themselves, although harder to observe and document than the prenatal determination of fetal sex and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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