Ensuring daughter survival in Tamil Nadu, India

Oxford Development Studies

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 253-283

  Srinivasan, Sharada ^a   Bedi, Arjun S ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL STUDIES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WOMENS STATUS;

INDIA; TAMIL NADU;

EID: 80052420475     PISSN: 13600818     EISSN: 14699966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13600818.2011.594500     Document Type: Article

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