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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Doodh peeti''' was a method of [[female infanticide]] in which newborn girls were drowned in [[pail (container)|pail]]s or pits of [[cow milk]] (''doodh''). It is the British government who found that in Rajasthan, the people were dipping and drowning newborn girl child in milk to death. The practice was prevalent in the [[Saurashtra (region)|Saurashtra]] and [[Kutch]] region of [[India]].<ref name="Korbin1983">{{cite book|author=Jill E. Korbin|title=Child Abuse and Neglect: Cross-cultural Perspectives|url=https://archive.org/details/childabuseneglec00jill|url-access=registration|accessdate=15 November 2015|year=1983|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-05070-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/childabuseneglec00jill/page/79 79]}}</ref><ref name=Banerji>{{cite journal|url=http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue22/banerji.htm|last1=Banerji|first1=Rita|title=Female Genocide in India and the 50 Million Missing Campaign|journal=Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific|date=October 2009|issue=22|accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=SureshRath>{{cite web|last1=Rath|first1=Suresh|title=Public Health Needs Modified Strategy|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233736047|website=[[ResearchGate]]|accessdate=15 November 2015}}</ref> The phrase is a [[euphemism]] literally meaning "feeding of milk".<ref name="Rambachan2014">{{cite book|author=Anantanand Rambachan|title=A Hindu Theology of Liberation: Not-Two Is Not One|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=or9FBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA160|accessdate=15 November 2015|date=7 November 2014|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-1-4384-5457-3|page=160}}</ref><ref name="Aḥsānulḥaq2007">{{cite book|author=Aḥsānulḥaq|title=Sociology of Population in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6WGhQkVtjzAC&pg=PA128|accessdate=15 November 2015|date=1 January 2007|publisher=Macmillan India|isbn=978-0-230-63013-0|page=128}}</ref><br />
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==History==<br />
During a census in 1805, the [[British India|British]] officials found almost no girls in Jadeja [[Rajput]] families of the [[Kutch]] and [[Kathiawar]] regions.<ref name="Korbin1983"/> The [[Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition|11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica]] (1910) noted under the topic ''Infanticide'' that this method was practiced by some [[Rajputs]] to avoid paying [[dowry]] later. It noted that [[Rajah]]s sometimes paid over {{currency|100,000|GBP}} as a dowry.<ref name=brit>{{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica|date=1910|edition=11|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/40009/40009-h/40009-h.htm#ar28|accessdate=15 November 2015|chapter=Infanticide}}</ref> The [[Resident (title)|British resident]] in [[Baroda state|Baroda]], Colonel Walker, insisted on banning the practice while signing pacts with the local Rajputs. The practice however continued until the late 19th century.<ref name="Yagnik2005">{{cite book|author=Achyut Yagnik|title=Shaping Of Modern Gujarat|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FYDviPFeoSAC&pg=PT77|accessdate=15 November 2015|date=24 August 2005|publisher=Penguin Books Limited|isbn=978-81-8475-185-7|page=77}}</ref><br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Kuri-mar]]<br />
* [[Female infanticide in India]]<br />
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==References==<br />
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[[Category:Sex selection in India]]<br />
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