Overview
- Provides explanation of farmer suicides in the context of political change in rural India
- Presents analysis of rural and agrarian change with introduction of new conceptual categories
- Explains farmer political mobilization from an alternative perspective
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor. By bringing in politics as a variable the research presented in the book reveals that there are non-farm factors playing critical role in prompting behavioral change amongst the peasantry but haven’t received much academic attention. The book argues that the changing nature of public spaces has significantly altered the perception of self in the rural society of India. It presents indicators of this rural change and how the state policy and political parties led political mobilization that changed the character of community relations in the rural areas.
The book shows that other possible manifestations of the large-scale behavioral change in the rural areas and increasing rural distress, those are equally serious but haven’t received much attention, are rising cases of drug-addiction, agrarian riots, or other forms of collective violence. The increasing number of farmers protests also need to be understood in this context.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr Sudhir Kumar Suthar teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His areas of specialization are governance, rural and agrarian politics and movements, political psychology, international relations and research methodology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dilapidation of the Rural
Book Subtitle: Development, Politics, and Farmer Suicides in India
Authors: Sudhir Kumar Suthar
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3892-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-19-3891-7Published: 03 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-981-19-3892-4Published: 02 September 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 210
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Policy, Political Science, Agricultural Economics, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Social Work and Community Development