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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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  • ISBN: 9789390327461
  • Author: Iyer Kavitha
  • Publisher: HarperCollins
  • Pages: 248
  • Format: Hardback
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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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