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  1. 1.

    https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/45-farmers-commit-suicide-each-day-in-india--34387.

  2. 2.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/06/why-are-americas-farmers-killing-themselves-in-record-numbers.

  3. 3.

    Karl Polanyi uses this word in his book The Great Transformation. He explains: “.. a social calamity is primarily a cultural not an economic phenomenon that can be measured by income figures or population statistics” (Polanyi 1944: 164).

  4. 4.

    The rural society is also referred here as villages or village society.

  5. 5.

    The word man in this research refers to man as a social construction in the sense of imposition of masculine values and not as a biological being.

  6. 6.

    Peasant here indicates farmers with small or marginal landholdings with Usage of the term peasant.

  7. 7.

    The term peasant here indicates farmers with small or marginal landholdings whose family labor is involved in agricultural profession. In addition, these households also have a unique social feature of embeddedness in the rural culture and society. Generally, in this book usage of the term farmer also indicates peasant farmers. This has been described in detail in this chapter.

  8. 8.

    For details see https://dictionary.apa.org/distress.

  9. 9.

    Anderson, Kevin 1999. ‘Marx on Suicide in the context of His Other Writings on Alienation and Gender’, in Eric A. Plaut and Kevin Anderson. Eds. Marx on Suicide. Northwestern University Press: Illinois. pp. 3–28.

  10. 10.

    A study by Brookings India argues that suicides were an outcome of absence of psychological medical facilities in rural areas. The study fails to acknowledge suicides as a collective social problem and reduces it to an individual’s behavioral complexities which could be resolved by providing medical assistance. See the report online https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/shamika-paper-suicides-edited.pdf.

  11. 11.

    Read the article on link https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/bitstream/handle/20.500.12413/8355/IDSB_37_6_10.1111-j.1759-5436.2006.tb00319.x.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y. Accessed on 30 January 2018.

  12. 12.

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/20/world/australia/rural-suicides-farmers-globalization.html.

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Suthar, S.K. (2022). Introduction. In: Dilapidation of the Rural. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3892-4_1

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