[Table/Fig-5]:

Comparative table showing the age of menarche in Indian girls [19–31].

Authors	Year of Study	Caste/Place	Mean Age (years)	Median Age
Ghosh, Kochhar and Khanna [19]	1972	Poona girls	13.2±0.06
Agarwal et al., [20]	1974	Varanasi and Ramnagar	12 years
Kaul et al., [21]	1983	Jabalpur girls	13.57 years.
Singh et al., [22]	1986	Agra girls	13.4 years
Subba Rao [23]	1996	Viswa Brahmins	12.76 years
Vaidya et al., [24]	1998	Mumbai girls	12.0 years
Kaur and Singh [25]	1999	Punjabi girls	12.62 years
Sidhu [26]	2002	Sikh Harijan Hindu Harijan	------	11.88±1.16 12.23±-1.43
Khanna and Kapoor [27]	2004	Punjabi arora girls	12.87 years
Das gupta and Sarkar [28]	2008	Adolescent girls	12.8 years
Rokade and Mane [29]	2009	Maharashtrian girls	12.62±1.05 years
Prakash et al., [30]	2010	Uttarakhand girls	13.6±1.1 years
Kaur, Mehta and Kaur [31]	2015	Punjabi adolescent girls	13±1.2 years
Present study	2016	Bania girls	12.36	12.30