On infanticide in India:
“There are about 535,000 traditional birth attendants in Bihar for a population of 100 million. In several districts of the state, [the researcher] found that each midwife killed as many as 5 newborn girls a month. The study, released in 1995, was in a formal exercise, but [the researchers] believe that “if anything, the survey underestimated infanticide.”
An organization called Adithi, founded by Vigia Srinivasan, did the research.
Miriam Jordan “Brief Lives” Wall Street Journal, May 9, 2000
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