List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgement1. Introduction2. Ecology, Risk and Cash Crop Cultivation: Agrarian Change in NRP3. Aham, Swartham, and Poti: Rising Individualism in the Village4. The Desiring Village; Consumption, Status, and Identity Construction5. aFarmersa Suicidesa: A Critical Appraisal6. Manam and Svamanam: The Ideology and Organisation of Suicide7. ConclusionAppendixBibliographyIndexAbout the Author

This work describes spatially grounded transformations that are unfolding in the domains of production, consumption, social bonds and gender identities in rural India today. These transformations and the engendered emotional experiences that they locally evoke are used as the context to understand 'farmers' suicides'. The book thus challenges the common understanding that 'farmers' suicides' are objectively, uniformly and exclusively marked by 'farm-related' economic causes. It attempts to locate farm related suicides in the wider complex of rural suicides and explores social meanings of suicide