Fascinating! Probably Chhatisgarh will be between Jharkhand and Andhra, rather than between Madhya Pradesh and Orissa; tribals treat their womenfolk with more respect and affection (no, I'm not bashing anyone in particular today, just looking at various shades of red).
If you map the vegetarian/non-vegetarian map onto this, you'll find another weird coincidence; the vegetarians kill. This seems to reflect a finding that bureaucrats have apparently shared internally for over a decade now; India is rapidly bifurcating into two, based on economic development, which means that we'll have ended up with four zones eventually: Economically and culturally advanced (except districts of Tamil Nadu in its north-west): Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka; Economically advanced, culturally still backward: Maharashtra, Gujarat; Economically backward, culturally advanced: West Bengal, Jharkhand, Bihar, the entire north-east; Economically backward, culturally backward: Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal, Jammu & Kashmir. --- On Wed, 20/4/11, Ashwin N <ashwi...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Ashwin N <ashwi...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [silk] Why do we hate our girls? To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Wednesday, 20 April, 2011, 12:45 Trying to visualize the child sex ratio across Indian states, I created a Google Geomap: http://ashwin.zaatar.org/ChildSexRatio-IndiaCensus2011.html It looks like you could slice a diagonal through India, with the states in red above it. ~ash > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Udhay Shankar N <ud...@pobox.com> wrote: >> >> http://www.indiatogether.org/2011/apr/hlt-sexratio.htm >> >> The child sex ratio (ie., the number of females to every 1000 males in >> the age group 0-6 years) ranges from 830 for Haryana, to 971 for >> Mizoram. I find it instructive that the 3 states with the highest >> child sex ratios are Andaman & Nicobar, Meghalaya and Mizoram. >> >> > > > tribal states , no baggage of indian/hindu religious or cultural dogma > .... in meghalaya traditionally men pay dowry etc.... and of course no > elaborate arrangement of marriages.
