The Trivers-Willard hypothesis seems relevant in this context:
http://pandasthumb.org/archives/2004/08/the-triverswill.html
Anand
P.S. More here :
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/indo-euro-americo-asian_list/message/419P.\
P.S. Ashwin, that is indeed a sublime and funky geomap.
--- In [email protected], Indrajit Gupta <bonobashi@...> wrote:
>
> Fascinating!
>
> Probably Chhatisgarh will be between Jharkhand and Andhra, rather than
between Madhya Pradesh and Orissa; tribals treat their womenfolk with
more respect and affection (no, I'm not bashing anyone in particular
today, just looking at various shades of red).
>
> If you map the vegetarian/non-vegetarian map onto this, you'll find
another weird coincidence; the vegetarians kill.
>
> This seems to reflect a finding that bureaucrats have apparently
shared internally for over a decade now; India is rapidly bifurcating
into two, based on economic development, which means that we'll have
ended up with four zones eventually:
>
> Economically and culturally advanced (except districts of Tamil Nadu
in its north-west): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka;
> Economically advanced, culturally still backward: Maharashtra,
Gujarat;
> Economically backward, culturally advanced: West Bengal, Jharkhand,
Bihar, the entire north-east;
> Economically backward, culturally backward: Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,
Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Jammu & Kashmir.
>
>
>
> --- On Wed, 20/4/11, Ashwin N ashwin.n@... wrote:
>
> From: Ashwin N ashwin.n@...
> Subject: Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls?
> To: silklist@...
> Date: Wednesday, 20 April, 2011, 12:45
>
> Trying to visualize the child sex ratio across Indian states, I
> created a Google Geomap:
> http://ashwin.zaatar.org/ChildSexRatio-IndiaCensus2011.html
>
> It looks like you could slice a diagonal through India, with the
> states in red above it.
>
> ~ash
>
> > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Udhay Shankar N udhay@... wrote:
> >>
> >> http://www.indiatogether.org/2011/apr/hlt-sexratio.htm
> >>
> >> The child sex ratio (ie., the number of females to every 1000 males
in
> >> the age group 0-6 years) ranges from 830 for Haryana, to 971 for
> >> Mizoram. I find it instructive that the 3 states with the highest
> >> child sex ratios are Andaman & Nicobar, Meghalaya and Mizoram.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > tribal states , no baggage of indian/hindu religious or cultural
dogma
> > .... in meghalaya traditionally men pay dowry etc.... and of course
no
> > elaborate arrangement of marriages.
>
