'We are like the living dead': Farmer suicides in Maharashtra, Western India

Journal of Peasant Studies

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 243-276

  Mohanty, Bibhuti B ^a  

^a GOKHALE INSTITUTE OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RURAL SOCIETY; SUICIDE;

ASIA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; INDIA; MAHARASHTRA; SOUTH ASIA; WORLD;

EID: 22744449324     PISSN: 03066150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03066150500094485     Document Type: Article

References (88)

1. Assadi, Muzaffar, 1998, 'Farmers Suicides: Signs of Distress in Rural Economy,' Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.33, No.13.
2. Baviskar, B.S., 1980, The Politics of Development: Sugar Cooperatives in Rural Maharashtra, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
3. Benjamin, N., 1973, 'Raw Cotton of Western India - A Comment', The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.10, No.1.
4. Benjamin, N., and B.B. Mohanty, 2001, 'Ambedkar's Quest for the Right of Social Equality: An Interpretation', Social Action, Vol.51, No.2.
5. Besnard, Philippe (ed.), 1983, The Sociological Domain: The Durkheimians and the Founding of French Sociology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
6. Borpujari, J.G., 1973, 'Indian Cottons and the Cotton Famine 1860-65', The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.10, No.1.
7. Bose, Ashish, 2000, 'From Population to Pests in Punjab: American Boll Worm and Suicides in Cotton Belt', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.35, No.38.
8. Brahme, Sulabha and Ashok Upadhyaya, 1979, A Critical Analysis of the Social Formation and Peasant Resistance in Maharashtra Vol.I (Mimeo), Pune: Shankar Brahme Samaj Vidnyan Grathalaya.
9. Brody, Hugh, 1973, Inishkillane: Change and Decline in the West of Ireland, London: Allen Lanc, the Penguin Press.
10. Dash, A.P., et al., 1998, Failure of Cotton Crop and Its Impact on Farmers, Pune: Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management.
11. Desai, G.M., et al., 1978, Cultivators' Experience of High Yielding Varieties of Cotton (A Macro Study in Gujarat), Ahmedabad: Centre for Management in Agriculture, IIM.
12. Dhanagare, D.N., 1975, 'Prosperity and Debt in Rural Punjab', Sociological Bulletin, Vol.28, Nos.1-2.
13. Dhanagare, D.N., 1994, 'The Class Character and Politics of the Farmers' Movement in Maharashtra during 1980s', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.21, Nos.3/4.
14. Deshpande, R.S., 1998, 'Land Reforms and Agrarian Structure in Maharashtra', Journal of Indian School of Political Economy, Vol.10, No.1.
15. Deshpande, R.S., 2002, 'Suicide by Farmers in Karnataka: Agrarian Distress and Possible Alleviatory Steps', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.37, No.26.
16. Durkheim, Emile, 1933, The Division of Labour in Society (translated by George Simpson), New York: Macmillan.
17. Durkheim, Emile, 1952, Suicide: A Study in Sociology, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
18. Gibbs, Jack P. and Walter T. Martin, 1958, 'A Theory of Status Integration and Its Relationship to Suicide', American Sociological Review, Vol.23, No.2.
19. Gibbs, Jack P. and Walter T. Martin, 1964, Status Integration and Suicide: A Sociological Study, Eugene, OR: University of Oregon Press.
20. Giddens, A., 1966, 'A Typology of Suicide', European Journal of Sociology, Vol.11, No.2.
21. Giddens, A., 1971, Capitalism and Modern Social Theory: An Analysis of the Writings of Marx, Durkheim and Max Weber, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
22. Government of British India, 1908, Central Provinces District Gazetteers - Yeotmal District Volume A. Descriptive (by C. Brown and R.V. Russell), Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press.
23. Government of British India, 1910, Central Provinces District Gazetteers - Akola District Volume A. Descriptive (by C. Brown), Calcutta: Baptist Mission Press.
24. Government of British India, 1911, Central Provinces District Gazetteers - Amraoti District Volume A. Descriptive (edited by S.V. Fitzgerald and A.E. Nelson), Bombay: Caxton Works.
25. Government of British India, 1927a, Central Provinces District Gazetteers - Amraoti District (Statistical Tables 1891-1926), Nagpur: Government Press.
26. Government of British India, 1927b, Central Provinces District Gazetteers - Yeotmal District (Statistical Tables 1891-1926), Nagpur: Government Press.
27. Government of British India, 1933, Census of India, Volume XII: Central Provinces and Berar, Part I - Report by W.H. Shoobert, Nagpur: Superintendent of Census Operations.
28. Government of India, 1972, Census of India 197: Series- ii Maharashtra Part II-A, General Population Tables, Mumbai: Directorate of Census Operations.
29. Government of India, 1975, Census of India 1971: Series- ii Maharashtra Part II-C(i), Social and Cultural Tables, Mumbai: Directorate of Census Operations.
30. Government of India, 1983a, Census of India 1981: Series-12 Maharashtra Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Primary Census Abstract, Mumbai: Directorate of Census Operations.
31. Government of India, 1983b, Census of India 1981: Series- I India Primary Census Abstract Part II- B(i). New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner.
32. Government of India, 1986, Reports of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices on Price Policy for the Crops Sown in 1985-86 Season, New Delhi: Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
33. Government of India, 1991, Cost of Cultivation of Principal Crops in India, New Delhi: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
34. Government of India, 1993, Census of India 1991: Series-14 Maharashtra Part II-B(ii) Primary Census Abstract, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Mumbai: Directorate of Census Operations.
35. Government of India, 1994, Census of India 1991: Series - I India Primary Census Abstract General Population Part II - B(i) Volume II, New Delhi: Registrar General and Census Commissioner.
36. Government of India, 1998, Reports of the Commission for Agricultural Costs and Prices for the Crops Sown during 1998-99 Season, New Delhi: Department of Agriculture and Cooperation.
37. Government of Maharashtra, 1968, Maharashtra State Gazetteers - Amravati District (Revised edition), Bombay: Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications.
38. Government of Maharashtra, 1974, Maharashtra State Gazetteers - Yeotmal District (Revised edition), Bombay: Gazetteers Department.
39. Government of Maharashtra, 1976, Report on Agricultural Census 1970-71: Maharashtra State Part I & II, Pune: Department of Agriculture.
40. Government of Maharashtra, 1984, Statistical Abstract of Maharashtra State, 1980-81, Mumbai: Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
41. Government of Maharashtra, 1988, Report on Agricultural Census 1980-81: Maharashtra State Part I & II, Pune: Department of Agriculture.
42. Government of Maharashtra, 1994, Statistical Abstract of Maharashtra State, 1989-90 & 1990-91, Mumbai: Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
43. Government of Maharashtra, 1995, Report on Agricultural Census 1990-91: Maharashtra State Part I & II, Pune: Department of Agriculture.
44. Government of Maharashtra, various issues, Season and Crop Report, Maharashtra State, Mumbai: Government Printing, Stationery and Publications.
45. Government of Maharashtra, various issues, Districtwise General Statistical and Agricultural Information, Part II, Pune: Department of Agriculture.
46. Government of Maharashtra, various issues, Annual Vital Statistics Report of Maharashtra State, Mumbai: Directorate of Health Services and Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths.
47. Government of Maharashtra, 2000, Statistical Abstract of Maharashtra State, 1993-94 & 1994-95, Mumbai: Directorate of Economics and Statistics.
48. Grover, D.K., Sanjay Kumar and Kamal Vatta, 2003, Market Imperfections and Farmers' Distress in Punjab, Ludhiana: Agro-Economic Research Centre, Punjab Agricultural University.
49. Guha, Amalendu, 1972, 'Raw Cotton of Western India: Output, Transportation and Marketing, 1750-1850', The Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol.9, No.1.
50. Ho, Peter, Jacob Eyferth and Eduard B. Vermeer (eds.), 2003, 'Rural Development in Transitional China: The New Agriculture', a special issue of The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.30, Nos.3&4.
51. Iyer, K.G., and M.S. Manick, 2000, Indebtedness, Impoverishment and Suicides in Rural Punjab, New Delhi: India Publishers and Distributors.
52. Kamath, Nandan, et al., 1998, The Plight of Farmers in Bidar, Bangalore: National Law School University of India.
53. Kumari, Ranjana, 1989, Brides Are Not for Burning: Dowry Victims in India, New Delhi: Radiant Publishers.
54. Lockwood, David, 1982, 'Fatalism: Durkheim's Hidden Theory of Order', in Anthony Giddens and Gavin Mackenzie (eds.), Social Class and the Division of Labour: Essays in Honour of Ilya Neustadt, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
55. MacIntyre, Alasdair, 1971, Against the Self-Images of the Age: Essays on Ideology and Philosophy, London: Gerald Duckworth.
56. Malinowski, Bronislaw, 1926, Crime and Custom in Savage Society, New York: Harcourt Brace.
57. Marks, R. Stephen, 1975, 'Durkheim's Theory of Anomie', American Journal of Sociology, Vol.80, No.2.
58. Miley, James D., 1972. 'Structural Change and the Durkheimian Legacy: A Macro-social Analysis of Suicide Rates', American Journal of Sociology, Vol.78, No.3.
59. Mohanty, B.B., 1999, 'Agricultural Modernisation and Social Inequality: Case Study of Satara District', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, No.26.
60. Mohanty, B.B., 2000, 'Agricultural Modernisation in Rural Orissa: Land Transfer and Ownership Patterns', Sociological Bulletin, Vol.49, No.1.
61. Mohanty, B.B., 2001a, 'Suicides of Farmers in Maharashtra: A Socio-economic Analysis', Review of Development and Change, Vol.6. No.2.
62. Mohanty, B.B., 2001b, 'Land Distribution among Scheduled Castes and Tribes', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.36, No.40.
63. Mohanty, B.B., 2001c, Land Holding and Use Pattern among Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes in Maharashtra, Pune: Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics.
64. Mohanty, B.B. and Sangeeta Shroff, 2003, Market Imperfections and Farmers' Distress in Maharashtra, Pune: Gokhale Institute of Economics and Politics.
65. Mohanty, B.B. and Sangeeta Shroff, 2004, 'Farmers' Suicides in Maharashtra', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.39, No.2.
66. Morrison, Ken, 1995, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Foundations of Modern Social Thought, London: Sage.
67. Nanekar, K.R, 1968, Land Reforms in Vidarbha Region: An Inquiry into the Implementation of Land Reforms in the Vidarbha Region, Calcutta: Oxford and IBH Publishing Company.
68. Nirmala, Annie K., 2003, Market Imperfections and Farmers' Distress in Andhra Pradesh, Visakhapatnam: Andhra University.
69. O'Hanlon, Rosalind, 1985, Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth Century Western India, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
70. Omvedt, Gail, 1976, Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahmin Movement in Western India, 1873 to 1930, Bombay: Scientific Socialist Education Trust.
71. Omvedt, Gail, 1994. Dalits and the Democratic Revolution, Dr. Ambedkar and the Dalit Movement in Colonial India, New Delhi: Sage.
72. Omvedt, Gail, 1999, 'Dalit Suicides?', The Hindu, April 24.
73. Parthasarathy, G. and Shameem, 1998, 'Suicides of Cotton Farmers in Andhra Pradesh: An Exploratory Study', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.33, No.13.
74. Powell, Elwin H., 1958, 'Occupation, Status and Suicide: Toward a Redefinition of Anomic', American Sociological Review, Vol.23, No.2.
75. Prasad, C. Shambu, 1999, 'Suicide Deaths and Quality of Indian Cotton: Perspectives from History of Technology and Khadi Movement', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, No.5.
76. Punalekar, S.P, 1998, 'Growth, Inequities and Tensions: A Case Study of Sangli District, Maharashtra', in K.L. Sharma (ed.), Caste and Class in India, Delhi: Rawat Publications.
77. Rajasekaran, N., 1996, Trends in Operational Holding in Maharashtra: An Analysis of Determinants, Pune: Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics.
78. Rajasekaran, N., 1998, 'Land Reforms in Maharashtra: A Regional Analysis', Review of Development and Change, Vol.3, No.2.
79. Rao, V.M., 1972, 'Land Reform in Rural Communities: Some Findings in a Rayatwari Region', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.7, No.40.
80. Rao, V.M., and D.V. Gopalappa, 2004, 'Agricultural Growth and Farmer Distress: Tentative Perspectives from Kamataka', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.39, No.2.
81. Revathi, E., 1998, 'Farmer Suicides Missing Issues', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.33, No.20.
82. Russell, R.V., 1916, The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India (Vol.IV), London: Macmillan.
83. Rutten, Mario, 1995. Farms and Factories: Social Profile of Large Farmers and Rural Industrialists in West India, Delhi: Oxford University Press.
84. Sahu, Gagan Bihari, S. Madheswaran and D. Rajasekhar, 2004, 'Credit Constraints and Distress Sales in Rural India: Evidence from Kalahandi District, Orissa', The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol.31, No.2.
85. Sarap, Kailas, 1991, Interlinked Agrarian Markets in Rural India, New Delhi: Sage.
86. Sarma, E.A.S., 2004, 'Is the Rural Economy Breaking Down? Farmers' Suicides in Andhra Pradesh', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.39, No.28.
87. Shiva, Vandana, and A.H. Jafri, 1998, Seeds of Suicide: The Ecological and Human Costs of Globalisation of Agriculture, New Delhi: Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology.
88. Vasavi, A.R., 1999, 'Agrarian Distress in Bidar: Market, State and Suicides', Economic and Political Weekly, Vol.34, No.32.