The Life of Debt in Rural India
Over 250,000 farmers have committed suicide across India since 1995, the majority of deaths concentrated in central India’s cotton belt. Scholarly consensus views suicides amongst the peasantry as debt-induced: transgenic cotton cultivation imprisons producers in downward monetary debt spirals. Base...
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| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7916/D8ZC8FHN |