Still no excuse for individuals acting like animals
Killing your daughters with impunity and embracing extreme patriarchy isn't really smart... China is facing that problem too.
Funny how the most fukked up places around the world are always where they treat their women like dirt.
I agree with you in general but labeling it as patriarchy is disingenuous...the perpetrators of the female infanticide are by and large the mothers or related females..
Its actually matriarchy..The act of direct infanticide among Rajputs was usually performed by women, often the mother herself or a nurse. Administration of poison was in any event a type of killing particularly associated with women
Female infanticide in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the paternal Grandmother is the De facto head of the extended family..she decides who her sons will marry,how the family will be organised and she wants grandsons not granddaughters
i admit its kind of odd that a matriarchal society can be so hostile to female infants but alot of it has to do with wealth,inheritance and dowry..females represent an economic risk to their families
The rationale was mainly economic, lying in a desire not to split land and wealth among too many heirs and in avoiding the payment of dowries. Sisters and daughters would marry men of similar standing and thus pose a challenge to the cohesion of wealth and power, whereas concubines and their children would not and thus could be allowed to live.[12][13] He further argues that the need for warriors in the villages of a pre-industrial society meant female children were devalued, and the combination of war casualties and infanticide acted as a necessary form of population control

