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Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed with power and the market. The continuing farm crisis represents not only failure of economic and development models but also collapse of the democratic system. To divert the blame, the statistics have been fudged and the farmers accused of being too ambitious, reckless, even unstable, especially in places of high suicide incidence like Vidarbha. But the story of the distress of the farmers has an immortality that does not end with the farmer's death. It lives on in the experience of the farm widow, who struggles in the shadows outside the boundaries of the limelight. Widows of Vidarbha is the story of 18 such widows of Vidarbha who have been invisible to the state, the community, and even their families. Tracked over two years of research from 2014 to 2016, the widows spoke about their lost dreams of education and identity, their diminished view of the world, and their helpless surrender to conveniences of patriarchy. The book reveals the process through which the invisibility is imposed on the woman from the time she was a child, forced to relegate

Author

Neelima, Kota, author

Publisher

Oxford University Press India

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780199093632

Subjects

Management, Gender Studies, Business