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'''Kuri-mar''' (or '''Kudi-mar''')<ref name="WilsonRost1862"/> is a [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] phrase which literally means "girl killer".<ref name="Patel2007">{{cite book|author=Tulsi Patel|title=Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UegqZBISwBYC&pg=PA242|accessdate=14 November 2015|year=2007|publisher=SAGE Publications|isbn=978-0-7619-3539-1|pages=242, 419}}</ref><ref name="OldenburgTalwar2010"/><ref name="McLeod2009"/> Various ''rehat-namas'' including the [[Sikh Rehat Maryada]] prohibited the practice.<ref name="Craufurd1817"/><ref name="Dahiya2013">{{cite book|author=Amardeep S. Dahiya|title=Founder of the Khalsa: The Life and Times of Guru Gobind Singh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UA09BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT146|accessdate=14 November 2015|date=1 December 2013|publisher=Hay House, Inc|isbn=978-93-81398-61-6|page=146}}</ref> Today, the term also encompasses [[female foeticide]] and may refer to North-western regions of [[India]] which have skewed [[human sex ratio|sex ratio]]s.<ref name="Patel2007"/>
==Overview==
Various ''rehat-namas,'' philosophical and semi-theological codes of patronage, arbitration and conduct in [[Dharmic]] schools of thought, including the [[Sikh Rehat Maryada]] prohibited the practice.<ref name="McLeod2009">{{cite book|author=W. H. McLeod|title=The A to Z of Sikhism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vgixwfeCyDAC&pg=PA119|accessdate=14 November 2015|date=24 July 2009|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=978-0-8108-6344-6|pages=65–66, 119}}</ref><ref name="OldenburgTalwar2010">{{cite book|author1=Veena Talwar Oldenburg|author2=Veena Talwar|title=Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating A Cultural|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FbJLqd9flhAC&pg=PA23|accessdate=14 November 2015|year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-306399-5|page=23}}</ref><ref name="Mohan2006">{{cite book|author=Kamlesh Mohan|title=Towards Gender History: Images, Identities, and Roles of North Indian Women with Special Reference to Panjab|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aO5zXUD6chgC&pg=PA52|accessdate=14 November 2015|year=2006|publisher=Aakar|isbn=978-81-87879-65-7|pages=37, 52}}</ref>
In 1699,<ref name="Dahiya2013"/> [[Guru Govind Singh]], while baptizing, had prohibited the new followers from marrying, eating or sitting with five clans or sects. The clans or sects were - ''Mina D'hirmal'', the descendants of Pirthi Mal who tried to poison [[Guru Arjun]], ''Musandia'', who proclaimed themselves gurus and followed heterodox doctrines, ''Ram Rayi'', the descendants of Ram Ray, who caused the death of [[Guru Tegh Bahadur]], ''Kudi Mar'', who destroyed their own daughters, and ''Bhadani'', who shaved their head and beard.<ref name="Craufurd1817">{{cite book|author=Quintin Craufurd|title=Researches Concerning the Laws, Theology, Learning, Commerce Etc. of Ancient and Modern India. - London, T. Cadell & W. Davies 1817|url=https://archive.org/details/researchesconce00craugoog|accessdate=14 November 2015|year=1817|publisher=T. Cadell & W. Davies|pages=[https://archive.org/details/researchesconce00craugoog/page/n354 344]–345}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Later Mughal| year=1971 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ak5oFjTys8MC&pg=PA81|accessdate=14 November 2015|publisher=Atlantic Publishers & Distri|page=81|id=GGKEY:127HGC10PTU}}</ref><ref name="WilsonRost1862">{{cite book|author1=Horace Hayman Wilson|author2=Reinhold Rost|author2-link=Reinhold Rost|title=Essays and Lectures Chiefly on the Religion of the Hindus by the Late H. H. Wilson: Miscellanuous essays and lectures. 2|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CJN5gsuvMoQC|accessdate=14 November 2015|year=1862|publisher=Trubner|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CJN5gsuvMoQC/page/n156 148]–149}}</ref> The [[Sikh Rehat Maryada]], published in 1950, prohibits the practice strictly.<ref name="SinghFenech2014">{{cite book|author1=Pashaura Singh|author2=Louis E. Fenech|title=The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7YwNAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620|accessdate=14 November 2015|date=27 March 2014|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-100411-7|page=620}}</ref>
==See also==
* [[Female infanticide in India]]
* [[Doodh peeti]]
==References==
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[[Category:Sex selection in India]]
[[Category:Punjabi words and phrases]]
[[Category:Violence against women in India]]
[[Category:Female infanticide]]
[[Category:Child murder in India]]