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[Jester]

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/a...adis2.html

Perhaps availability? The largest concentrations seem to be Delhi, and up near Shimla. It seems that it is also more dangerous resulting in higher maternal deaths.

That appears to predict the opposite pattern - that we should see a bias in the Northeast and south, and no bias in the Northwest. But (if your first link is right) that's exactly backwards, except for Punjab (which, as Lissa pointed out, is probably an outlier for being mostly Sikh.)

Although I'm not sure these statistics report accurately - your second link seems to imply that Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of abortions, whereas your first codes it as being low-to-middle. That may just be a rates vs. absolute numbers issue, I don't know.

-Jester