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  • Multiple wives most common among tribals: NFHS data
    Rema Nagarajan
    Times of India
    2022

    Polygyny or the practice of having more than one wife is legal in India only for Muslims, but National Family Health Survey (NFHS) data shows it is almost as prevalent in other communities, though on the decline in all.

  • The Quality of Care in the Sterilization Camps of Uttar Pradesh
    M. E. Khan, R. B. Gupta, John W. Townsend
    Population Council
    1999

    Sterilization for men and women is the most commonly used contraceptive method both in India at large and in Uttar Pradesh.

  • Water, Forest, Land and the Girl Child
    Nasiruddin Haider Khan
    National Foundation for India
    1997

    The relationship between society and nature is an old one. It might be better to say that this relationship is ancient.