Debt and death in rural India : The Punjab Story / Aman Sidhu with Inderjit Singh Jaijee

By:

Sidhu, Aman

Contributor(s):

Jaijee, Inderjit Singh

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 335 pp. ; 23 cmISBN:

9788132106531

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DDC classification:

23 362.280 SID

Summary: This volume explores the crisis of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s through 2008. Grounded in extensive empirical fieldwork, it examines how centralized policies, regional water disputes, declining executive powers of the state, and systemic agricultural debt have converged to place a severe economic and psychological burden on Punjab's small peasantry, while addressing the politics of mortuary statistics.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
VC Office Books	SNU LIBRARY	362.280 SID (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Books Received from VC office	VC744

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This volume explores the crisis of farmer suicides in rural Punjab from the mid-1980s through 2008. Grounded in extensive empirical fieldwork, it examines how centralized policies, regional water disputes, declining executive powers of the state, and systemic agricultural debt have converged to place a severe economic and psychological burden on Punjab's small peasantry, while addressing the politics of mortuary statistics.

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