Contents: Vol. I. Issues in Agrarian Crisis and Farmers' Suicides: Preface. Introduction. 1. Agricultural labour, policy of WTO and farmers' suicides in Indian states/S.N. Tripathy. 2. Agrarian crisis and livelihood security of rural labour in India/A. Sangamithra. 3. Gathering agrarian crisis--farmers' suicides/K. Vanitha and D. Kumar. 4. Agrarian distress and farmers' suicides/Rakesh A. Joshi. 5. The ailing agriculture/A. Chandrasekaran. 6. Agrarian crisis in India: reasons and remedies/P. Mercy Kumari, M.N. Swarna and B.S. Rao. 7. Agrarian crisis and rural labour in India/S.K. Dhage and B.G. Loho. 8. Agrarian crisis in Indian agriculture/K. Vanitha and D. Kumar. 9. Growth of Indian agriculture: a great dilemma of new economic policy/Radhakrushna Panda. 10. Displacement and replacement of workers in agriculture: an enquiry of push and pull elements/K.R. Pillai. 11. Climate change: an emerging major challenge for Indian farmers/S. Pathak and H. Pathak. 12. Agrarian distress and indebtedness in Orissa: nature, dimension and people's resilience/Basanta K. Sahu. 13. Causes and implications of indebtedness among marginal farmer-cum-agricultural labourers of Assam--a case study of Barpeta district/Tiken Chandra Das. 14. An economic analysis of agricultural labourer in Hyderabad Karnataka region/K.A. Rasure, Channabasavanagouda P. and Bokkal Nagendrappa. 15. The recent agrarian crisis in India and livelihood security for farmers and agricultural labourers: a study in Koraput district of Orissa/B. Eswar Rao Patnaik. 16. Agrarian crisis and agricultural labour in Punjab/Sukhpal Singh, H.S. Kingra and T.K. Dhaliwal. 17. Agrarian crisis in Thanjavur and rural labour: an emerging trend/S. Ramachandra and R. Elango. 18. Class differentiation, liberalization policy and labour absorption: some paradoxes of efficiency with and without agrarian capitalism in two agro-ecological regions in West Bengal/Sudipta Bhattacharyya. 19. Women in the world of work: a brief review/Maniklal Adhikary and Madhuri Adhikary. 20. Status of rural female work force participation rates in India/D. Pulla Rao.
Vol. II. Livelihood Security Issues and Resolutions: 1. Agricultural labour in India: some emerging livelihood issues and resolutions/Sibranjan Misra and Jaydev Misra. 2. Agricultural labour force: an overview of livelihood security/Maniklal Adhikary and Sravanti Maity. 3. Risk-bearing capacity and livelihood security of rural households in India/S.K. Tapasvi. 4. Rural non-farm sector employment and village size: establishment of some linkages/S.K. Yadav, Vandana Shukla and Radhey Shyam. 5. Rural livelihood and livestock rearing/D. Kumar, T. Sudakar and B. Mohamed Rafeeq. 6. Role of information and communication technology in expanding livelihood opportunities/A. Thomas and M.A. Sudhir. 7. Rural development programmes and policies: some ground realities/Adya Prasad Pandey. 8. Agrarian crisis and livelihood security of rural labour through rural development programmes in India/Bagade, Dattatray S. 9. Emergence of biovillage, eco-farming system and food security in India/R. Balasubramaniyan. 10. Condition of labour in the milieu of special economic zones/Maniklal Adhikary and Samrat Choudhuri. 11. Agrarian crisis reduces through micro irrigation: a study of Mahaboobnagar district of Andhra Pradesh/B.V. Raghavendar, K. Mahendra Kumar and B.S. Rao. 12. Livelihood security of labourers in tea plantation: trail of facts in regions of North Bengal/Maniklal Adhikary and Animesh Debnath. 13. Exploration of alternate avenues of employment for oustee farmers and rural agricultural labourers: a case study of Gurgaon town of Haryana/S.K. Yadav. 14. Agrarian distress in Kerala: implications for rural livelihood/Rajeev C. Bharathan. 15. Livelihood security of rural labour in Maharashtra--a focus on alternative avenues/A.B. Deogirikar and Y.S. Topare. 16. Unemployment, food insecurity and agrarian crisis in KBK districts of Orissa/S.N. Tripathy. 17. Emerging agrarian crisis and options for creation of employment and income opportunities in Uttarakhand/G.S. Mehta. 18. Inter-regional variation of rural non-agricultural employment in a district of West Bengal/Rathindra Nath Pramanik. 19. Land-use transformation through small tea plantation as a rural livelihood security strategy: a case study of North Bengal/Tamas Ranjan Majumdar. 20. Employment guarantee act: an unfinished agenda and the task ahead/Jagannath Lenka and Minati Mallick. 21. Pattern of employment and unemployment in Orissa: a time series analysis/C.R. Das and R.K. Panda.
"The book deals with three very important issues of contemporary concern in India. These are the issues of agrarian crisis, farmers' suicide and livelihood security of rural labour. The issues have been incorporated into two volumes. In volume I, studies related to agrarian crisis and farmers' suicide have been included, while volume II incorporates the studies related to the livelihood security of the agrarian and rural labour. As the ongoing farmers' suicides and economic destruction of farmers and rural labourers continues, with intermittent media reports and apathy from ruling quarters, the contributors generally shunned the explanations offered by media and the political parties. They have gone deeper into the causes and tried to analyse the problems with economists' mind. The papers are empirical and exploratory in nature written by both promising young scholars and experienced researchers. It is hoped that the book will be useful to researchers, academicians and policy makers and administrators alike who have an interest in the topics and who are somehow related and concerned with the issues." (jacket)
