Contents Preface & Acknowledgements(v) Contributors (xi) Introduction (xvii) VOLUME I ISSUES IN AGRARIAN CRISIS AND FARMERS' SUICIDES 1. Agricultural Labour, Policy of WTO and Farmers' Suicides in Indian States 3 S.N. Tripatlhy 2. Agrarian Crisis and Livelihood Security of Rural Labour in India 22 A. Sangamithra 3. Gathering Agrarian Crisis-Farmers' Suicides 34 K. Vanitha and D. Kutnar 4. Agrarian Distress and Farmers' Suicides 52 Rah'sh A. foshi 5. The Ailing Agriculture 58 A. Chaiidrtisekaran 6. Agrarian Crisis in India: Reasons and Remedies 71 P. Mercy Kumari, M.N. Swarna and B.S. Rao 7. Agrarian Crisis and Rural Labour in India 80 S.K. Dhage & B.C. Lobo 8. Agrarian Crisis in Indian Agriculture 94 K. Vanitha and D. Kumar 9. Growth of Indian Agriculture: A Great Dilemma of New Economic Policy 108 Radhakntshna Panda 10. Displacement and Replacement of Workers in Agriculture: An Enquiry of Push and Pull Elements 130 K.R. Piilai 11. Climate Change: An Emerging Major Challenge for Indian Farmers 139 S. Pathak and H. Pathak 12. Agrarian Distress and Indebtedness in Orissa: Nature, Dimension and People's Resilience 155 Basanta K. Sahtt 13. Causes and Implications of Indebtedness Among Marginal Farmer-Cum-Agricultural Labourers of Assam-A Case Study of Barpeta District 196 Tiken Chandra Das 14. An Economic Analysis of Agricultural Labourer in Hyderabad Karnataka Region 223 K..A. Rasure, Channabasavanagouda P. & Bokkal Nagendrappa 15. The Recent Agrarian Crisis in India and Livelihood Security for Farmers and Agricultural Labourers: A Study in Koraput District of Orissa 234 B. Eswar Rao Patnaik 16. Agrarian Crisis and Agricultural Labour in Punjab246 Sukhpa! Singh, H.S. Kingra and T.K. Dhaliwal 17. Agrarian Crisis in Thanjavur and Rural Labour: An Emerging Trend 258 S. Ramachandran & 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 Bengal286 Sudipta Bhattacharyya 19. Women in the World of Work: A Brief Review 325 Maniklal Adhikary & Madhuri Adhikary 20. Status of Rural Female Work Force Participation Rates in India347 D. Pulla Rao