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Intergenerational Interests, Uncertainty and Discrimination — II: An Empirical Analysis of the Process of Declining Child Sex Ratios in India

This article is an empirical analysis of the problem of declining child sex ratios in India. The rapid transformation of the social and economic fabric in India is altering the institution of the family, as the young become increasingly disembedded from customary social relations. Case studies in Karnataka and Uttaranchal show how this transformation has lead to differing intergenerationai interests, thereby increasing parental uncertainty about the future. The uncertainty experienced by the older generation concerns apprehensions about future socioeconomic obligations and the younger generation becoming disembedded from those intergenerational interests. It is in the face of this uncertainty that the situational context of the social devices transmitted through centuries of gendered prescriptions is fallen back upon and receives renewed importance. This context is constituted by highly gendered norms wherein daughter discrimination is legitimised and rationalised.