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Unraveling farmer suicides in india : egoism and masculinity in peasant life / Nilotpal Kumar.

By: Material type: TextTextCopyright date: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, ©2017Description: xv, 308 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780199466856 (hbk.)
  • 0199466858
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.280954 KUM 23 011627
Contents:
1. Introduction 2. Ecology, risk, and cash crop cultivation, agrarian change in NRP 3. Aham, Swartham, and Poti, rising individualism in the Village 4. The desiring village, consumption, status, and identity construction 5. 'Farmers' Suicides', a critical appraisal 6. Manam and Avamanam, masculinity, suicide and social meanings 7. Conclusion.
Summary: "The earliest cases of farmers' suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emerged from Vidharba in Maharashtra and among red gram cultivators in Karnataka. Since then, the issue of 'farmers' suicides' has acquired disturbing proportions. This book contests the conventional notion of farmers' suicides as seen through the limited scope of agrarian economic distress. Through an ethnographic study in the district of Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, it delves into the transformations in production, consumption, social relationship, and gender identities in present-day south India. Exploring these interconnected shifts, it interrogates the peripheral factors ascribed to farmer suicides and presents an alternative and more nuanced reality behind this grave crisis. The author contends that rural farmer suicides relate to emerging mentalities and interactions around status, equality, and honour in contemporary India."--Book jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-302) and index.

1. Introduction
2. Ecology, risk, and cash crop cultivation, agrarian change in NRP
3. Aham, Swartham, and Poti, rising individualism in the Village
4. The desiring village, consumption, status, and identity construction
5. 'Farmers' Suicides', a critical appraisal
6. Manam and Avamanam, masculinity, suicide and social meanings
7. Conclusion.

"The earliest cases of farmers' suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emerged from Vidharba in Maharashtra and among red gram cultivators in Karnataka. Since then, the issue of 'farmers' suicides' has acquired disturbing proportions. This book contests the conventional notion of farmers' suicides as seen through the limited scope of agrarian economic distress. Through an ethnographic study in the district of Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, it delves into the transformations in production, consumption, social relationship, and gender identities in present-day south India. Exploring these interconnected shifts, it interrogates the peripheral factors ascribed to farmer suicides and presents an alternative and more nuanced reality behind this grave crisis. The author contends that rural farmer suicides relate to emerging mentalities and interactions around status, equality, and honour in contemporary India."--Book jacket.

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