Wayne State University Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints WSU Press 11-10-2020 Change in the Prevalence and Determinants of Consanguineous Marriages in India between National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS) 1 (1992–1993) and 4 (2015–2016) Mir Azad Kalam Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, India Santosh Kumar Sharma International Institute of Population Sciences Saswata Ghosh Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK) Subho Roy University of Calcutta Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints Recommended Citation Kalam, Mir Azad; Sharma, Santosh Kumar; Ghosh, Saswata; and Roy, Subho, "Change in the Prevalence and Determinants of Consanguineous Marriages in India between National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS) 1 (1992–1993) and 4 (2015–2016)" (2020). Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints. 178. https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints/178 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the WSU Press at DigitalCommons@WayneState. It has been accepted for inclusion in Human Biology Open Access Pre-Prints by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@WayneState. Change in the Prevalence and Determinants of Consanguineous Marriages in India between National Family and Health Surveys (NFHS) 1 (1992–1993) and 4 (2015–2016) Mir Azad Kalam,1* Santosh Kumar Sharma,2 Saswata Ghosh,3 and Subho Roy4 1Narasinha Dutt College, Howrah, India. 2International Institute of Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. 3Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK), Kolkata, India. 4Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. *Correspondence to: Mir Azad Kalam, Narasinha Dutt College, 129 Belilious Road, West Bengal, Howrah 711101, India. E-mail:
[email protected]. Short Title: Change in Prevalence and Determinants of Consanguineous Marriages in India KEY WORDS: NATIONAL FAMILY AND HEALTH SURVEY, CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE, DETERMINANTS, RELIGION, INDIA.