Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=52493#.VJodXcCAM4 Author(s) Pramod Kumar Srivastava Affiliation(s) Department of Western History, University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India . ABSTRACT In post-colonial India the female foeticide, a practice evolved from customary female infanticide of pre-colonial and colonial period, committed though in separate incidents, has made it almost a unified wave of mass murder. It does not fulfil the widely accepted existing definition of genocide but the high rate of abortion of legitimate girl-foetus by Indian parents makes their crime a kind of group killing or genocide. The female foeticide in post-colonial India is not a m...
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