Contemporary discourses on social exclusion in India are largely centered on historically marginalized sections of Indian society, such as dalits, tribes, women, religious, linguistic and sexual minorities. Whereas children, elderly, mentally ill persons and their caregivers, who are in fact, a cross cutting category across all sections of Indian populations, are largely ignored in the mainstream discourses on social exclusion and inclusive policy making decisions. Situating within this context, this edited book is a response to reconstruct the psychological and social disability experience...

The current understanding about suicide and its related behaviors goes well beyond the conventional mental health models and acknowledges suicide as a complex human behaviour influenced by multi-facet factors ranging from bio-psychosocial to environmental elements. But contemporary discourses on farmer suicide in India are largely focused on agrarian crisis, economic hardships and financial indebtedness faced by farmers in the countryside, while psychosocial and mental health aspects are largely ignored. Though these crisis situations are the predictive of stressful life events that may...