Agrarian Crisis and Farmers ’Suicides in India: An Overview

The unremunerativeness of agriculture, grinding indebtedness and farmer suicides is the today's most distressing phenomenon in India. The study has been attempted to reveal that the farming sector had been facing several problems since British Rule, which compounded to become the genesis of contemporary agrarian crisis. Although significant measures in the form of green revolution, crop diversification and economic reforms were taken by the Indian government but the situation was more or less the same. The agrarian crisis caused by indebtedness is not new to India but its fallout is most pernicious in its new dimensions.