Sadanandan, Anoop - In: Journal of Developing Areas 48 (2014) 4, pp. 287-307
farmers. Most of the farm suicides have, however, taken place in five of India’s 28 states, suggesting that adverse financial …? This paper offers an answer by relating farm suicides to the financial reforms the country undertook since the 1990s. Using … agriculture to create dire economic conditions that facilitated farm suicides in some Indian states. …