Land reforms in Maharashtra: a regional analysis

Rajasekaran, N.

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“…Other measures taken related to land tenure system, tenancy, land ceiling, consolidation of holdings and distribution of land to scheduled castes and tribes. Despite loopholes, these Acts had positive impact on the redistribution of land (Nanekar 1968;Rao 1972;Rajasekaran 1998; and Deshpande 1998). In Maharashtra, Vidarbha region reported a higher achievement in land reforms measures and within the region the districts of Amaravati and Yavatmal registered a better performance (Rajasekaran 1998:248).…”

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Suicides of farmers in Maharashtra: A socio-economic analysis

Mohanty

2001

Review of Development and Change

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Based on analysis both at the micro and macro levels, linking historical with contemporary data and economic with social phenomena, the present paper provides a comprehensive account of suicides of the farmers in Maharashtra with reference to Amravati and Yilvatmal districts. The findings of the study indicate that the suicides of the farmers were the results of complex process of interaction of historical as well as contemporary forces. The lower and the medium caste farmers who were mostly the small farmers had aspired for a better socioeconomic position through <1gricullurc in the planning era in the wake of land reforms and other allied measures. When they failed to realise it owing to crop loss they found their life not worth living. Their suicidal tendency was strengthened by egoistic factors. On the contrary, the suicides of the large and medium farmers who mostly belong to higher castes can be attributed mainly to anomic forces generated by failure in business, trade and politics. The sociocultural factors such as old age, illness, family tension, etc., further ;idded to their urge to take their own lives.

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