• Too much dependency on an Agricultural economy: Most important for farming society, as India has been in the past, the fact that a boy is able to lend a hand in farming whereas a girl would not be able to do all these tasks.
• Excess taxes by overlords to finance wars etc.
• Lack of rain caused droughts in turn causing poverty where a family could not pay dowry.

India has one of the lowest female to male ratios in the world with Punjab (Agricultural Economy) leading the count with 793 girls being born per every 1000 boys.  The farmers of Punjab are practicing this even to this day and suicide rates are also at a high in many states including Punjab.

Mr. Rao what are you trying to ask or prove, why dont you just clearly state your points?  Intermixing of castes has nothing to do with post-independence and that is why that article posted is from pre-independence British journals which shows the nature of various tribes of the area. 

AP Singh Gujjar, lol what does this have to do with female infanticide? Better yet lets have a reference for this claim you have purported;  Its a known fact that Mughal kings took daughters from Pathans, Iranians, Afghans and Rajputs during time of nauroz women were sent from as far as Herat and Khorasan -- so are all these people not warrior clans???

yup mughals did take a lot of afghan and persian wives, and a lot of them acutally settled in present day kashmir, kashmir was where rich mughals and their families settled and also summer home for them.

Again and again, the discussion about race is going on in spite of its pseudo-scientific nature enjoying the nuances of colour of skin, eyes, nasal index, cranial index and so on, however, miscegenation is forgotten conveniently. Many times, the genetic evidences are relied upon nowadays as if it could prove and settle everything in historical interpretation. The genetic experts many times trace the origin to Africa and then shift to Asia. The moment they confront with “monogenous” or “heterogeneous” complications, they twist the results either way or any way to please their rulers (invariably religious affiliated or controlled).

A. P. Singh has mentioned about “Rajaputs sharing their wives with the Moghuls”. I am perplexed as to why such “sharing” was not mutual and reciprocating? Why the Rajaputs should have been “so generous”? Why such thing should happen?

In ancient Tamil studies, we find, the Romans giving away their women to Tamils along with wine and gold in getting Indian goods (c.300 BCE-100 CE). Later, we find, even the Greeks had been amorous in getting their daughters married to Indian Emperors (c.200 BCE)! Here, the position is that the Indian Kings and rulers were at their commanding position. But, the “one way amorous diplomacy” or “political compulsion” of the Rajaputs is intriguing. Incidentally, at the same time, the South Indian Kings had been very diplomatic in marrying off their daughters and sons to maintain stability.

Endogamous and exogamous interpretation in historical processes cannot give any definite results.

until u guys fully provide evidence that romans met tamils and traded their women to tamil, (which is impossible) i wont beleive a thing u guys say. It seems a lot of just make things up and its truly a sad thing because a person with little knowledge would beleive your out rages claims.

and PS. do you want to open a thread in the European section of this forum to ask them if romans gave their women away to tamils i bet they would laugh thier a** off.

Many times, some of the ASE members accused me for supporting Tamils and so on.

They even used strong language disparaging as "south Indians" and so on.

Any way, here, why can't our member stick to the topic and have a healthy dialogue to feel every body comfortable, instead of indulging in such unbecoming activities.

We should keep some decorum, as rightly pointed out by Mr. A. P. Singh.

Tamilnadu Numismatic Society and Oriental Numismatic Society conducted the third Annual conference cum workshop on Numismatics held at Madras on April 16^th 1989 in which Dr. Parameswari Lal Gupta, the Indian numismatist presented his paper, “South Indian Numismatics – Problems and Prospects”, in which he pointed out about the “marketing of girls by Romans as follows:

“In them such coins have been found that are not the genuine coins imported from Rome; they are the copies of the Roman coins, prepared locally by the casting technique. It appears that when the Romans had realised that they had something of their own, such as girls that could be marketed in India, they suspended or minimized the export of their coins. To replenish the Roman coins, that had gained popularity by now, the traders began to imitate them. These Roman imitations may well be dated upto fourth-fifth centuries A. D. This façade of South Indian numismatics needs to be thoroughly investigated.”

Parameswari Lal Gupta, South Indian Numismatics – Problems and Prospects, Proceedings, p.15.

Female infanticide is world's highest in India, China, and some regions of Pakistan. This was recently shown in a 3 hour BBC documentary, on "The Passionate Eye". The ratio is 3 : 1 (3 males for every 1 female). They stated that alot of Asian men have extremely high competition for wives, and marriage between other races (predominantly the West) is taking place.