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The earliest cases of farmers' suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emerged from Vidharba in Maharashtra and among red gram cultivators in Karnataka. Since then, the issue of 'farmers' suicides' has acquired disturbing proportions.
This book contests the conventional notion of farmers' suicides as seen through the limited scope of agrarian economic distress. Through an ethnographic study in the district of Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh, it delves into the transformations in production, consumption, social...

Neel is a young inquisitive boy from Bihar growing up in the Indian Mining township of Dhanbad, when TV had not touched lives in small towns and the internet was still a few decades away. Now a corporate executive, he looks back on how he reached here and contrasts his growing up years to that of his son, without being judgmental. The journey of growing up and discovery is filled with humour and emotions. It explores a young boy's desire for recognition, little triumphs, occasional fumbles, involvement of family in defining professional goals, chasing of those goals, compromised choices, and...

Neel is a young inquisitive boy from Bihar growing up in the Indian Mining township of Dhanbad, when TV had not touched lives in small towns and the internet was still a few decades away. Now a corporate executive, he looks back on how he reached here and contrasts his growing up years to that of his son, without being judgmental. The journey of growing up and discovery is filled with humour and emotions. It explores a young boy's desire for recognition, little triumphs, occasional fumbles, involvement of family in defining professional goals, chasing of those goals, compromised choices, and...

This book explores the relationship between the production of new urban spaces and illiberal community-making in contemporary India, based on Noida, Uttar Pradesh bordering Delhi. It will be of interest to development studies, sociology, urban studies, society and politics of contemporary India/South Asia.