The Tamil Nadu government has notified a glossary of terms in English and Tamil to be used including in the media to address and describe people from the LGBTQIA+ community as per a Madras high court suggestion.
We use data from the 1981 and 1991 censuses of India to examine (a) sex ratios among infants aged under 2, (b) child mortality (q5) by sex, and (c) estimated period sex ratios at birth (SRB) calculated by reverse survival methods, to see whether bias against female children pers