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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2011
As the following remarks by a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society may be considered an appropriate introduction to this subject, they are here prefixed.
I Have perused with attention the report on Hindú Infanticide in Cutch, by Mr. Burnes, affording evidence of the assiduity which marks all his researches.
Its publication in our Journal I should judge every way desirable; for it calls the notice of the public to the circumstance that the total suppression of this practice has not been effected; and we cannot aspire to higher merit than in laudably exerting ourselves to the promotion of such public measures as may tend to the well-doing of our fellow-creatures.
* The following are the tribes among which female infanticide prevails—they are all Rájápúts:—Jhárejá, Hotí, Dáidá, Múkalsí, Phúl, Dall, Waramsí, Jhárrá, Búltá, Bárách, Ría, Súkheir, Kandeir, Kair, Aman, Wánána, Bamáníe, and Vírár.