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Coping with Spousal Suicide: A Sociological Study of Widows of Farmers’ Suicides in Karnataka

A.N.Gayathri , A.N.Gayathri , Amarnath R.Das

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Journal of Social Welfare and Management 4(4):p 173-179, October - December 2012. | DOI:

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The growing incidence of farmers all over the country has shattered the farmers’ households. Piled up debt, erratic and insufficient monsoon burden of the family, farming have fallen on the shoulders of the widows of farmers who had committed suicide. India being an agricultural nation and its commitment being welfare state cannot afford to lose one lakh farmers every year. It is of importance to see as to how these widows cope up the tragedy befallen on their families. Are they reeling under pressure of the farm and the family? or are they also likely to follow their spouses in ending a hapless life?, Whether or not they able to bail out themselves and their families from the distress is examined in this paper.

Key words:Farmers’ Suicide: The self inflicted deaths willfully carried out by the farmers, due to the debt burden and the loss of self esteem. 

Coping: The ability to bear the tragic death of their spouse as a widow and efforts put in to bail out themselves and their families from the distress.  

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