01081nam a2200217Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000180005808200200007610000160009624500960011225000120020826000460022030000270026636500090029352004320030265000260073465000240076065000300078465000210081470000280083520260708150741.0260708s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a9788132106531  223a362.280 SID  aSidhu, Aman 0aDebt and death in rural India :b The Punjab Story /cAman Sidhu with Inderjit Singh Jaijee  a1st ed.  aNew Delhi : b Sage Publications ,c2011.  axx, 335 pp. ;c 23 cm.  b0.00  aThis 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.  aAgriculture and state  aEconomic conditions  aFarmers Suicidal behavior  aRural conditions  aJaijee, Inderjit Singh.