Farmers' suicides in Punjab: A census survey of the two most affected districts

Economic and Political Weekly

Volumn 46, Issue 26-27 SUPPL., 2011, Pages 131-137

  Sidhu, R S ^a   Singh, Sukhpal ^b   Bhullar, A S ^b  

^a Department of Environmental Sciences   (India)

^b PUNJAB AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

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EID: 84859382318     PISSN: 00129976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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1. AFDR (2000): "Suicides in Rural Punjab - A Report" (in Punjabi), Association for Democratic Rights, Patiala Unit, Punjab.
2. Durkheim, Emile (1897): Suicide (New York: The Free Press), reprint 1997.
3. Iyer, K G and M S Manick (2000): Indebtedness, Impoverishment and Suicides in Rural Punjab (New Delhi: Indian Publishers and Distributors).
4. Jaijee, Inderjeet Singh (1999): "Rural Suicides: Punjab", North American Sikh Journal, Vol 3 (1), pp 7-12.
5. Kumar, P and S L Sharma (2006): Suicides in Rural Punjab, Institute for Development and Communication, Chandigarh.
6. Singh Sukhpal, M Kaur and H S Kingra (2007): "Flow of Funds to Farmers and Indebtedness in Punjab", Research Report, The Punjab State Farmers' Commission, Government of Punjab.