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Demography. 2010 Nov;47(4):989-1012. doi: 10.1007/BF03213736.
This article explores the relationship between kinship institutions and sex ratios in India at the turn of the twentieth century. Because kinship rules vary by caste, language, religion, and region, we construct sex ratios by these categories at the district level by using data from the 1901 Census of India for Punjab (North), Bengal (East), and Madras (South). We find that the male-to-female sex ratio varied positively with caste rank, fell as one moved from the North to the East and then to the South, was higher for Hindus than for Muslims, and was higher for northern Indo-Aryan speakers than for the southern Dravidian-speaking people. We argue that these systematic patterns in the data are consistent with variations in the institution of family, kinship, and inheritance.
本文探讨了 20 世纪初印度亲属制度与性别比例之间的关系。由于亲属规则因种姓、语言、宗教和地区而异，我们通过使用 1901 年印度旁遮普邦（北部）、孟加拉邦（东部）和马德拉斯邦（南部）的人口普查数据，按这些类别在地区一级构建性别比例。我们发现，男女性别比例与种姓等级呈正相关，从北部到东部再到南部呈下降趋势，印度教徒的性别比例高于穆斯林，北部印度雅利安语使用者的性别比例高于南部德拉威语使用者。我们认为，这些数据中的系统模式与家庭、亲属和继承制度的变化是一致的。
