Women Without Choice: Female Infanticide and the Rhetoric of Overpopulation in Postcolonial India
[2023-05-08 06:29:00]
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To kill a woman's baby is to deliberately kill her newly born baby. Contemporary practices of abortion due to sexual selection are often discussed as closely related issues in historic countries that have women with infant murder. Murdering girls is the greatest concern material in several countries, including China, India and Pakistan. Some people think that observing women's "low status" in patriarchal society will harm women. In 1978, anthropologist Laila Williamson summarized her data on the prevalence of infant murder in tribes and developed countries or "civilized" countries and discovered infant murder on all continents. And it is carried out by the group of Hunter collectors. In a highly developed society, this is not only an exception but also general.
India is a patriarchal society, and cultural prejudice against women frequently occurs in women's infants, especially in poor and rural areas. In southern India, the Tamil Nadu state is a special concern (George, Sabu M.), as indirect demographic evidence in recent years has suggested that this practice is increasing. Infant women are spreading throughout the country, in particular in Salem, Dalmaapuri, Dindiguru, Madurai (Aravamudan, 1999). Research showed that in 1995, the number of girls who died immediately after birth was three times the number of boys (George, Sabu M.). According to reports, nearly 3,000 girls died immediately after birth between 3,000 and 1977 in Argamudan (1999) in Dharmapuri. Many different castes are adopting women's babies to kill infants and they show prejudice against women throughout the social stratum.
For centuries, girls have been eliminated in India. In the past, it was more difficult to drive out girls and also by killing women's babies after giving birth. However, during the British rule of India in the 19th century, the murder of a woman's baby was considered social evil and was prohibited by the Women's Murder Act (Wikipedia) in 1870. In other cases, the fetal gender is determined before birth, and pregnant women are beaten for a blow to her stomach, so that female fetuses can not survive (www.satyamevjayate. in).