Abstract
This paper sets out a part of the historical background to changes in the well-being of Indian women relative to the well-being of men in situations of hardship.
The author is most grateful to the Leverhulme Trust and the Institute of Economics and Statistics at Oxford which have supported Amartya Sen’s project on sex bias in India from which this is a historical offshoot. Development Studies Association women’s study group, Amartya Sen, Patricia and Roger Jeffery, and Mike Maguire have made helpful comments.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Learn about institutional subscriptionsPreview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References and Sources
Barker, Surgeon Major J.F., and G.J. Nicholls (1878), Answers to Questions of the Famine Commissioners prepared for the Central Province. (Naipur)
Bhatia, B.M. (1963), Famines in India 1850–194. (London: Asia Publishing House)
Bliss, C.J., and N.H. Stern (1978), ‘Economic Aspects of the Connection Between Productivity and Consumption’, Journal of Development Economic., 5, pp. 331–98
Cornish, W.R. (1863), Reports on the Nature of the Food of the Inhabitants of Madras Presidency, and on the Dietaries of Prisoners in Zillah Jail. (Madras: United Scottish Press)
Dyson, T. and M. Moore (1983), ‘Kinship structure, female autonomy, and demographic behaviour in India’, Population and Development Review. vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 35–60.
FAO/WHO (1973), Energy and Protein Requirement. (Rome: FAO) Garrow, J. and S. Blaza (1982), ‘Energy requirements in human beings’, in Neuberger, A. and T.H. Juke (eds), Human Nutrition: Current Issues and Controversie. (M.T.P. Press United)
Geddes, J.C. (1874), Administrative Experience recorded in Former Famines: Extracts from Official Papers containing Instructions for Dealing with Famin. (Calcutta: The Bengal Secretariat Press)
Ghosh, K.C. (1944), Famines in Bengal 1770–194. (Calcutta: Indian Associated Publishing Co., Ltd)
Iseley, B. (1981), ‘Social Correlates of Sex Differences in Mortality in a Small Area of South India’; Ph.D. Thesis, University of Oregon (microfilm)
James, H.E.M. (1897) Notes on Tou. (Central Executive Committee, Indian Famine Relief Fund, Office of the Superintendent, Government Printing, India)
Jeffery, R. (1984), ‘Sexual differences in child mortality in North India’, University of Edinburgh, mimeo
Kynch, J. and A.K. Sen (1983), ‘Indian Women: Well-Being and Survival’, Cambridge Journal of Economic., 7, p. 314
Kynch, J. (1985), ‘How many women are enough? Sex ratios and the right to life’, in Third World Affairs 198. (London: Third World Foundation)
Lewis, Surgeon Major T.R. (1880), ‘A Memorandum on the dietaries of labouring prisoners in Indian Jails’, Appendix A in Report of the Sanitary Commissioner for Madra. (Madras: Fort St. George Gazette Press)
McAlpin, M.B. (1985), ‘Famines, Epidemics and Population Growth: The case of India’, in R.I. Rotberg and T.K. Rabb, Hunger and Histor. (Cambridge University Press)
Miller, B. (1981), The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North Indi. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell U.P.)
Mukhopadhyay, M. (1984), Silver Shackle. (Oxfam)
Padmanabha, P. (1981), Survey on Infant and Child Mortality 197. (New Delhi: Office of the Registrar General)
Pemberton, J. (1946), ‘On the Difficulty of Isolating the Nutritional Factor in Disease from other Factors in the Social Background’, Proceedings of the Nutrition Societ., vol. 5, nos. 1 and 2.
Satyanarayana, K., A.N. Naidu and B.S. Narasinga Rao, (1978), ‘Nut-rition, Work Capacity and Output’, Indian Journal of Medical Researc., 68, pp. 88–93 (Supp.).
Sen, A.K. (1981), Poverty and Famine. (Oxford: Clarendon Press)
Sen, A.K. (1982), Family and Food: Sex Bias in Poverty’, forthcoming in P. Bardhan and T.N. Srinivasan (eds), Rural Poverty in South Asi. (Columbia University Press)
Sen, A.K. (1984), ‘Development: Which Way Now?’, Presidential Address, Development Studies Association, September 1982, in Resource., Values and Developmen. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell)
Sen, A. and S. Sengupta (1983), ‘Malnutrition of Rural Indian Children and the Sex Bias’, Economic and Political Weekl., 18, Annual Number
Spring Rice, M. (1939), Working Class Wives: Their Health and Conditio. (Harmondsworth: Penguin)
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Copyright information
© 1987 Haleh Afshar
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Kynch, J. (1987). Some State Responses to Male and Female Need in British India. In: Afshar, H. (eds) Women, State and Ideology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18650-1_8
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18650-1_8
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, London
Print ISBN: 978-0-333-41390-6
Online ISBN: 978-1-349-18650-1
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies CollectionSocial Sciences (R0)