Shihabudeen, P and Banerjee, Debosree and Joshi, Kshitija A
(2021)
Agricultural labourer suicides in a Kerala village.
In:
Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India.
Routledge, London.
ISBN 9781003047063
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| Abstract: |
The exploration of integration and regulation as they exist, and not what they are supposed to be, demands a return to the empirical – more specifically to ethnographies that can give us insights into the working of these processes. This chapter is an ethnography of wards in a village that has been among the most affected by farmers’ suicides. The frequency of suicides led to Kerala, from there to Palakkad district, on to a particular village and the specific wards in it. The ethnography provided deep insights into the working of integration and regulation in ways that generated moral pressure on older agricultural labourers to take loans they could not repay and then an even more intense pressure to repay. There is much to suggest that the individual agricultural labourers felt the differences in their experiences to be ethically unacceptable, to a point where the intrapersonal inequality prompted them to commit suicide. |
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Book Chapter
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| Subjects: |
School of Social Sciences > Economics
School of Social Sciences > Sociology |
| Divisions: |
Schools > Social Sciences |
| Date Deposited: |
18 Feb 2026 09:25 |
| Last Modified: |
18 Feb 2026 09:25 |
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003047063 |
| URI: |
http://eprints.nias.res.in/id/eprint/3168 |
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