This book presents the all-pervasive crisis in India's agrarian economy that has been marked with deceleration in growth and farmer distress for more than a decade. The most stark feature of this volume-case studies on farmer suicides-throws open the underlying causes of the deep rooted sluggish state of agriculture. INDICE: Foreword: R. Radhakrishna; Preface; Table; Figures; Annexure; Abbreviations; Contributors; I Macro Dimension of Agrarian Crisis; 1.: Agriculture in the Reforms Regime; 2.: Capital Formation in Indian Agriculture: National and State Level Analysis; 3.: Agricultural Credit and Indebtedness: Ground Realities and Policy Perspectives; 4.: Managing Vulnerability of Indian Agriculture: Implications for Research and Development; II. Farmers' Distress: A FewStates in Focus; 5. Framer Distress in a Modernizing Agriculture-The Tragedy of the Upwardly Mobile: An Overview; ; 6.: Agrarian Distress and Farmers' Suicides in Maharashtra; 7.: Farmers' Suicides and Unfolding Agriculture Crisis inAndhra Pradesh; 8.: Agrarian Transition and Farmers' Distress in Karnataka; 9.: Distress, Debt, and Suicides among Farmer Households: Findings from VillageStudies in Kerala; 10.: Agrarian Crisis in Punjab: High Indebtedness, Low Returns, and Farmers' Suicides.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806909-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés