Farmers’ Suicides in India | Economic and Political Weekly

Introduction

• Definition
• Data
• 1960s crisis → New agriculture Strategy→ led to separation of production goal from distribution outcome
• Types/ manifestation of agrarian crisis

• Feminisation of agriculture
• Pauperisation vs embourgeoisement
• Casualisation of workers
• From patronage to exploitation
• Feeding the Baniya(David Hardiman)

• Reasons for agrarian crisis
• Reasons for indebtedness
• 🗣️ Sociologist comments