01136nam a2200241Ia 4500 20260708150741.0 260708s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 9788132106531 23 362.280 SID Sidhu, Aman Debt and death in rural India : The Punjab Story / Aman Sidhu with Inderjit Singh Jaijee 1st ed. New Delhi : Sage Publications , 2011. xx, 335 pp. ; 23 cm. 0.00 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. Agriculture and state Economic conditions Farmers Suicidal behavior Rural conditions Jaijee, Inderjit Singh. VC OFFICE 70375 70375 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-26 0.00 0 362.280 SID VC744 2026-07-08 15:07:41 2026-06-26 VC OFFICE Books Received from VC office