Vermani, SavitaRani, Sunita2018-07-172018-07-171996http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810060595lnfant mortality is considered to be a very sensitive index of the health status of a commununity . mamly infant is suceptible to all the adverse factors m the environment in a stage when it has no power of resistance A high level of infant mortality signifies waste ages of effon and investment in rearing children Infant mortality rate in India is higher than that m other developed countries~ of that of female in fant mortality is still higher sex ratio in this favour of males The fall m the number of females per 1000 males from 934 m 1981 929 in1991 has evolved widespread concern about the underlying trend in sex~differentlyi monthly and the possible contribution of alligedly widespread female infanticide following ammocen tesis. The girl child mortality (2 .81 %) is more than mare child mortality (2 .63%1) (lrudaya Rajan S; Mishra_ US. Navan eetham K. 1992)enRural SociologyA Sociological Analysis of Female Infant Mortility in Rural HaryanaThesis