Women are missing Beatrice Tozzi Female infanticide is a phenomenon that has interested India for long time. The oldest evidence of laws against these killingsare to be traced in the years of British Raj (1858-1947). Back i n the years of colonization, was in 1870 that the British government adopted the Prevention of Murder of Female Infants Act, and only in 1898 female infanticide was acknowledged as a crime. [1] Female foeticide is the subject of a brilliant essay , “Disappearing Daughters”, wrote by Gita Aravamudan in 2007. This essay represents a complex effortin the direction of a theoretical clarification on t his subject , asking many questions and trying to provide answers . The origins of t he discrimination against girls are connected to the structure of Indian society . The caste system, a patriarchal society that stigm at izes women and marriage dowries are, for example, some of the characteristics thatcontribute to the loss of many women ’ s lives
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