Landscapes of Loss : The Story of an Indian Drought
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Author: Kavitha Iyer
9789356293687 | PB | pp. 230 | 2022 | HarperCollins Publishers
Landscapes of Loss: The Story of an Indian Drought by by Kavitha Iyer tells the story of Marathwada through it’s people bringing to light the complex factors causing agrarian unrest.
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Maharashtra, India’s richest state by GDP, has its eyes set on becoming the country’s first trillion-dollar economy by 2025. At the same time, Marathwada – a historically backward part of the state adjoining the distressed Vidarbha region – has seen a surge in farmer suicides.
At the heart of the crisis is a cyclical drought that has persisted for almost a decade. Relief packages and loan waivers have not reversed the trend. On the contrary, the stories of dystopia grow more tragic every year as thousands of farmer families flee to the big cities, while those who stay back are plagued by bad credit and crop loss.
Landscapes of Loss tells the story of Marathwada through the accounts of its people: marginal farmers, Dalits, landless labourers, farm widows and children. It lays bare the complex factors that have brought the region to this pass – a story representative, in many ways, of the agrarian unrest in large parts of rural India.
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| Author | Kavitha Iyer |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 9789356293687 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 230 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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