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Agrarian Distress Literature Review

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Contours of Agrarian Distress: A Review
Introduction
Agrarian distress is a multifaceted phenomenon emerged from the uneven development process in India. A large body of literature is produced on issues relating to agrarian sector, analysing it from different disciplinary perspectives. However, since the past decade, distress in rural area became the focus of extensive scholarly and media attention due to incidence of suicides among farmers and persistent indebtedness. Consequently, the studies differed considerably at both conceptual and methodological levels towards understanding agrarian distress. This necessitates a careful review of literature to understand nature of agrarian distress and various approaches in locating distress. …show more content…

While a number of studies focused on problems in agriculture (Mohanty & Schroff 2004; Vyas 2004), others pointed out the issues of agriculture dependent population (Jodhka 2005; Nair & Menon 2007; Reddy & Mishra 2006; Vasavi 1999). A few other scholars extended and linked the research issue to the distress in rural area (Patnaik 2004 & 2008; Sainath 2004). All these scholars used the term distress and crisis inter changeably. Given this, the existing body of literature pertaining to the issues in agrarian sector can be categorised thematically as agricultural crisis, agrarian crisis and rural …show more content…

The initiatives of the State revolved around growth constraints (such as output growth and role of agriculture in economic growth), with the thrust on alleviating agricultural crisis. The activists have on the other hand voiced their concerns about agrarian crisis and brought to the main-stage the issues of growing landlessness, marginalisation of holdings, casualisation of labour and rural-urban development disparities. Their concerns were broader than the growth crisis and related to livelihood issues and erosion of agrarian social foundations. The author pointed out that analysis of the question of ‘crisis’ by the State and the activists were conflicting with each other. The growth crisis supported liberalisation and less control of State, while the agrarian crisis demanded pro-active role of state and mobilization of people in bringing structural changes in the

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