Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - Sexual Maturity and Its Biosocial Proximates: A Study Among the Ladiya of Madhya Pradesh, India AU - Adak DK AU - Gharami AK Y1 - 2002 VL - 40 IS - 2 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 141 EP - 144 KW - Onset of menarche KW - Biosocial factors KW - The Ladiya N2 - N2 - The Ladiya of Madhya Pradesh have been studied in terms of puberty status. In the present paper four biosocial proximates like family income, father's occupation, birth order and sibship size have been taken into consideration to examine the age at menarche. On the basis of the present findings it appears that better socio-economic condition does show its effect over the onset of menarche among the Ladiya. ER -