Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India
Egoism and Masculinity in Peasant Life
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9780199466856
Publication date:
09/12/2016
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328 pages
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ISBN:
9780199466856
Publication date:
09/12/2016
Hardback
328 pages
Nilotpal Kumar
Unraveling Farmer Suicides in India 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.
Rights: World Rights
Nilotpal Kumar
Description
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.
About the Author
Nilotpal Kumar is an assistant professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.
Nilotpal Kumar
Table of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
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
Appendix
References
Index
About the Author
Nilotpal Kumar
Features
- This book attempts to provide a close-up and detailed portrait of everyday rural life in India that is in the midst of a transformation.
- It is one of the very few well-researched scholarships in the social sciences that have explored suicides in sociological terms.
- This work attempts to combine conceptual threads from classical sociology, political economy, and gender studies to understand suicidal behaviors.
Nilotpal Kumar
Description
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.
About the Author
Nilotpal Kumar is an assistant professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India.
Table of contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgements
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
Appendix
References
Index
About the Author
