Farmers' suicides and the state in India: Conceptual and ethnographic notes from Wayanad, Kerala

Contributions to Indian Sociology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2012, Pages 181-208

  Münster, Daniel ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

agrarian ecology; ethnography; farmers' suicides; Kerala; liberalisation; local state; party politics

Indexed keywords

AGRARIAN CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; LIBERALIZATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; PARTY POLITICS; RURAL AREA; STATE-LOCAL RELATIONS; SUICIDE;

INDIA; KERALA; WAYANAD;

EID: 84857320315     PISSN: 00699667     EISSN: 09730648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/006996671104600208     Document Type: Article

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