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Record Nr.

UNINA9910591040403321

Autore

Suthar Sudhir Kumar

Titolo

Dilapidation of the Rural : Development, Politics, and Farmer Suicides in India / / by Sudhir Kumar Suthar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9789811938924

9789811938917

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (219 pages)

Disciplina

306.349

Soggetti

Political planning

Political science

Agriculture - Economic aspects

Social policy

Economic development

Finance, Public

Public Policy

Political Science

Agricultural Economics

Social Policy

Development Studies

Public Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Chapter 1. Bande di anakh: Making of Peasant Political Self -- Chapter 2. Changing rural political sphere: Social Capital and public spaces -- Chapter 3. Party Politics and rural political engagements -- Chapter 4. State policy and rural development -- Chapter 5. New rural political economy: speculation, debt and financialization -- Chapter 6 Emerging forms of Rural distress -- Chapter 7. Contemporary rural-agrarian political mobilization -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural



politics as a determining factor. By bringing in politics as a variable the research presented in the book reveals that there are non-farm factors playing critical role in prompting behavioral change amongst the peasantry but haven’t received much academic attention. The book argues that the changing nature of public spaces has significantly altered the perception of self in the rural society of India. It presents indicators of this rural change and how the state policy and political parties led political mobilization that changed the character of community relations in the rural areas. The book shows that other possible manifestations of the large-scale behavioral change in the rural areas and increasing rural distress, those are equally serious but haven’t received much attention, are rising cases of drug-addiction, agrarian riots, or other forms of collective violence. The increasing number of farmers protests also need to be understood in this context. Dr Sudhir Kumar Suthar teaches at the Centre for Political Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. His areas of specialization are governance, rural and agrarian politics and movements, political psychology, international relations and research methodology.