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Further Reading List
Books

Don Pavey. Art-Based Games. 1979.  London: Methuen and Co. Ltd.

Iona and Peter Opie. Children’s Games; in Street and Playground. 1969. Great Britain: CPI Group (UK) Ltd.

Robert Wraight. The Art Game Again! 1965. England. Readers Union.

Sportification: Eurovisions Performativity and Playgrounds. Italy. 2017. Viaindustriae

Website

Thukral & Tagra. Q. 2013.
Retrieved from: http://www.thukralandtagra.com/q/

Thukral & Tagra. Match Fixed. 2010.
Retrieved from: http://www.thukralandtagra.com/match-fixed/

People’s Archive of Rural India. Farming and its crisis. 2018.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/

All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee. Dilli Chalo! Support the Farmers of India as they March to Delhi to demand a special session of Parliament on the agrarian crisis. 2018.
Retrieved from: https://dillichalo.in/

Department of Agriculture Cooperation & Farmers Welfare. Serving Farmers And Saving Farmers. 2019.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/Swaminathan+commission+report

India Meteorological Department, Government of India. Customized Rainfall Information System (CRIS) Hydromet Division. 2018.
Retrieved from: http://www.imd.gov.in

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). India at a glance. 2012.
Retrieved from: http://www.fao.org/india/fao-in-india/india-at-a-glance/en/

Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Economic Survey 2017-18_Volume 1. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://mofapp.nic.in:8080/economicsurvey/

Ministry of Finance, Government of India). Economic Survey 2017-18_Volume 2. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://mofapp.nic.in:8080/economicsurvey/

Videos

The Wire. Hum Bhi Bharat’ Episode 50: Why Are Indian Farmers up in Arms? 4 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/video/hum-bhi-bharat-episode-50-why-are-indian-farmers-up-in-arms

Samim Asgor Ali. Prof. Utsa Patnaik on Agrarian Crisis. 18 November 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ0DhZxUKCM

NDTV. Prime Time With Ravish Kumar, Nov 27, 2018 | PMFBY Bigger Scam Than Rafale, Says P Sainath 27 November 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_aRVxAA_7c

NDTV. Farmers End Protest After Delhi Midnight March, Schools Shut In Ghaziabad. 3 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kisan-kranti-padyatra-farmers-end-protest-after-delhi-midnight-march-schools-closed-in-ghaziabad-1925820

Bloomberg Quint. P Sainath: Significant Win For Farmers. 12 March 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YkMnvWRy54&ab_channel=BloombergQuint

People’s Archive of Rural India. Why are our farmers angry? P. Sainath on the latest phase of the agrarian crisis. 11 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyyvcP6MuoA&ab_channel=People%27sArchiveofRuralIndia

CNN-News18. The Crux: P Sainath on India’s Forgotten Farmer. 15 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAHwpm29-tU&ab_channel=CNN-News18

i4farmers. Crisis of Farming is a Crisis of Civilization – P. Sainath Part – 1. 19 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYox12g69Dw&ab_channel=i4farmers

Blogs

Devinder Sharma. Farmers’ suicides statistics point towards denial of income being the main causes. 25 March 2018.
Retrieved from: http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2018/03/farmers-suicides-statistics-point.html

Devinder Sharma. Why are farmers protesting?  6 June 2018.
Retrieved from: http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2018/06/why-are-farmers-protesting.html

Shastri, S. & George, V. The farmers who help keep democracy alive. 29 June 2018.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/the-farmers-who-help-keep-democracy-alive

P.Sainath. A long march of the dispossessed to Delhi. 22 June 2018.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/a-long-march-of-the-dispossessed-to-delhi

People’s Archive of Rural India. ‘I am a farmer, I walk this long journey’. 14 March 2018.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/i-am-a-farmer-i-walk-this-long-journey

Devinder Sharma. If bounties are being showered for farmers, it surely is election time.16 February 2018.
Retrieved from: http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2018/02/if-bounties-are-being-showered-for.html

Devinder Sharma. Debt and farming have now become synonym. 16 August 2017.
Retrieved from: http://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2017/08/debt-and-farming-have-now-become.html

Devinder Sharma. A paradigm shift is needed in economic thinking if agriculture has to be saved. 2 April 2018.
Retrieved from: https://devinder-sharma.blogspot.com/2018/04/a-paradigm-shift-is-needed-in-economic.html

Opinions

Neelima Kota. Kisan Kranti Yatra: Why New Delhi Won’t Let the Farmers In. 2 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/kisan-kranti-yatra-farmers-new-delhi-govt-apathy

P. Sainath. In India, Farmers Face a Terrifying Crisis. 13 April 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/india-farmers-crisis.html

Elumallai Kannan. Why a price increase alone won’t help farmers. 13 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/more-to-it-than-msp/article18966926.ece

Financial Express. If India cuts post-harvest losses, over 5 cr people could be fed for a year – at Rs 50 per day. 13 October 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/if-india-cuts-post-harvest-losses-over-5-cr-people-could-be-fed-for-a-year-at-rs-50-per-day/892535/

Surjit S Bhalla. No proof required: Just why are farmers rioting? 10 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/farmers-riot-maharashtra-madhya-pradesh-socio-economic-growing-prosperity-4696779/

P. Sainath. Wrestling with the rural economy. 28 May 2016.
Retrieved from: http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/columns/sainath/wrestling-with-the-rural-economy/article5286230.ece

Articles

Jyotika Sood. Farmers have decreased, farm labourers increased: Census report. 17 September 2015.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/farmers-have-decreased-farm-labourers-increased-census-report–40940

The Wire. 50,000 Farmers Begin Long March Despite Government’s Efforts to Stop Them. 21 February 2019.
Retrieved from https://thewire.in/rights/maharashtra-farmers-workers-long-march

Rajendhra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj. Deepening farm crisis in India could hurt Modi’s re-election bid. 3 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-farmers-protests-analysis/deepening-farm-crisis-in-india-could-hurt-modis-re-election-bid-idUSKCN1MD2CZ

Jitendra. Interim Budget 2019: Government’s big farmer push falls short. 1 February 2019.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/interim-budget-2019-government-s-big-farmer-push-falls-short-63054

Ashok Gulati and Shweta Saini. Creating a national agriculture market. 28 May 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/creating-a-national-agriculture-market/1183317/

United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. World population projected to reach 9.7 billion by 2050. 29 July 2015.
Retrieved from: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/2015-report.html

Prabhat Patnaik. Why India Needs the Left. 27 November 2017.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/economy/india-left-future-economy-social-policy

Financial Express. Small farm landholdings prevent economies of scale. 12 August 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/small-farm-landholdings-prevent-economies-of-scale/805043/

Devinder Sharma. Indian Agriculture’s Grave Tragedy Has its Genesis in the Failure of Markets. 22 April 2017.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/indian-agriculture-markets

Smriti Mudgal Sharma. Contract farming and the role of government. 26 February 2018. Retrieved from: https://www.ideasforindia.in/topics/agriculture/contract-farming-and-the-role-of-government.html

Economic Times. Protesting farmers break barricades near Ghazipur border to enter Delhi. 2 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/protesting-farmers-break-barricades-near-ghazipur-border-to-enter-delhi-police-fire-tear-gas-shells/articleshow/66038549.cms

Kuwar Singh. Cow, cow dung, and caste: Why India’s farmers are fuming at Modi. 3 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://qz.com/india/1411632/delhis-kisan-protest-why-indias-farmers-are-fuming-at-modi/

P. Sainath. Punjab’s arhtiyas: sins of commission. 2 July 2018.
Retrieved from: https://psainath.org/punjabs-arhtiyas-sins-of-commission/

P. Sainath Punjab’s arhtiyas: sins of commission. 18 May 2013.
Retrieved from: https://psainath.org/farmers-suicide-rates-soar-above-the-rest/

Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar. How the PM’s Crop Insurance Scheme Turned Into a Goldmine for 10 Private Insurers. 13 November 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/pm-crop-insurance-scheme-huge-profits-private-insurers

The Wire. A Day After Farmer’s Rally Turns Violent, Cabinet Approves MSP Hike. 3 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/msp-wheat-union-cabinet

Raghavi Sharma. Tikait’s Kisan Union to Bring Thousands of Farmers to Delhi in ‘Kisan Kranti Yatra. 1 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/kisan-union-farmers-march-delhi-kisan-kranti-yatra

Hussain Mollah. AIKS Exhorts Peasantry for Nationwide Struggles. 2018.
Retrieved from: https://peoplesdemocracy.in/2018/0729_pd/aiks-exhorts-peasantry-nationwide-struggles

Kabir Agarwal. Mahendra Singh Tikait’s Kisan Union Rattles Delhi Again After 30 Years. 2 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/mahendra-singh-tikaits-kisan-union-rattles-delhi-again-30-years

Kabir Agarwal. Here’s Why Farmers Across India Have Been – and Are Still – Protesting. 6 June 2018
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/india-farmers-protest-strike-gao-bandh

Siraj Hussain. Despite Penetration of Institutional Credit, Farmers Continue to Rely on Moneylenders. 24 August 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/despite-availability-of-institutional-credit-farmers-also-depend-on-informal-sources

Kiran Pandey. Poor post-harvest storage, transportation facilities to cost farmers dearly. 28 August 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/poor-post-harvest-storage-transportation-facilities-to-cost-farmers-dearly-61047

P.N. Bhandari. Reducing perishable component can prevent price crash due to bumper crop. 18 June 2017
Retrieved from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/reducing-the-perishable-component-can-prevent-a-price-crash-due-to-a-bumper-crop/articleshow/59196260.cms

Kirankumar Vissa. For India’s Farmers, Budget 2018 Is Nothing but a Hoax. 2 February 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/indias-farmers-budget-2018-nothing-hoax

Kabir Agarwal. Here’s Why Farmers Across India Have Been – and Are Still – Protesting. 6 June 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/india-farmers-protest-strike-gao-bandh

India Times. Another Farmers Protest, They Bury Themselves Neck Deep In Sand Over Cauvery Water Dispute. 7 April 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/another-farmers-protest-they-bury-themselves-neck-deep-in-sand-over-cauvery-water-dispute-342979.html

Parvesh Sharma. Villagers support farmers’ protest in Cheema Mandi. 12 March 2018.
Retrieved from: http://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/villagers-support-farmers-protest-in-cheema-mandi/556482.html

Gursharan Singh and Vishavjeet Chaudhary. What is the Future of Agriculture in India? 19 July 2016
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/what-is-the-future-of-agriculture-in-india

Rajendra Jadhav. Thousands of farmers march to India’s Mumbai to demand help. 12 March 218.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-farmers-march/thousands-of-farmers-march-to-indias-mumbai-to-demand-help-idUSKCN1GO09V

Michael Safi. Suicides of nearly 60,000 Indian farmers linked to climate change, study claims. 31 July 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/31/suicides-of-nearly-60000-indian-farmers-linked-to-climate-change-study-claims

The Wire. Rajasthan’s Half-Buried Farmers Continued Their Protest Against Land Acquisition on Diwali. 20 October 2017.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/rajasthan-half-buried-farmers-protest-land-acquisition-diwali

Manu Balachandran. Protesting farmers resort to eating their own faeces to get the Indian government’s attention. 12 September 2017.
Retrieved from: https://qz.com/1074961/protesting-farmers-resort-to-eating-their-own-faeces-to-get-the-indian-governments-attention

Dhanajay Mahapatra. Over 12,000 farmer suicides per year, Centre tells Supreme Court. 3 May 2017.
Retrieved from: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/over-12000-farmer-suicides-per-year-centre-tells-supreme-court/articleshow/58486441.cms

Rupa Chinai. Agricultural policies are to blame. India Together. 12 July 2012.
Retrieved from: http://www.indiatogether.org/nutrients2-poverty

Soutik Biswas. Why are farmers in India protesting with mice and human skulls? 21 April 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-39650496

Ramesh Babu. Battling unrelenting drought, Kerala women dig 180 wells to quench thirst. 7 May 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/battling-unrelenting-drought-kerala-women-dig-180-wells-to-quench-thirst/story-YRGMdlT9XXR7G6nGaZrarL.html

Rohit Kumar. The Day I Realised The Plight Of The Farmer Is India’s Biggest Problem. 4 September 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/rohit-kumar/the-day-i-realised-the-plight-of-the-farmer-is-india-s-biggest-problem_a_23188802

Hindustan Times. 650 Rajasthan women celebrate Diwali buried neck-deep in pits to protest land acquisition. 20 October 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.hindustantimes.com/jaipur/650-rajasthan-women-celebrate-diwali-buried-neck-deep-in-pits-to-protest-land-acquisition/story-s8snAskHCxFOWzvf5lW61I.html

Nikhil Pandhi. 1 In 3 Farmers In Punjab Below Poverty Line: Study. 21 June 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/1-in-3-farmers-in-punjab-below-poverty-line-study-1715299

Archana Chaudhary and Ameya Karve, A. Farmers Put Modi’s Political Future at Risk. 27 September 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-26/farmers-street-protests-shake-modi-s-2019-bid-as-economy-slows

Kaushik Srinivasan. 5 schemes introduced by the government to make agriculture a profitable sector. 11 June 2016.
Retrieved from: https://yourstory.com/2016/06/schemes-agriculture-profitable

Vishwanath Kulkarni. Agricultural lands fragment further in five years. 6 November 2012. The Hindu.
Retrieved from: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/agri-business/Agricultural-lands-fragment-further-in-five-years/article20524638.ece

P. Sainath. Kushti: the secular & the syncretic. 19 November 2014.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/kushti-the-secular-the-syncretic

Nikhil Pandhi. (2017, June 21). 1 In 3 Farmers In Punjab Below Poverty Line: Study. NDTV.
Retrieved from: https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/1-in-3-farmers-in-punjab-below-poverty-line-study-1715299

Jitendra. It may take at least 25 years to double farmers’ income: study. 28 August 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/it-may-take-at-least-25-years-to-double-farmers-income-study-61454

Hussain. Sorrows of a bumper yield. 17 July 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/sorrows-of-a-bumper-yield-5821

INDO-ASIAN NEWS SERVICE. NDA’s crop insurance scheme bigger scam than Rafale: P. Sainath. Business Standard. 3 November 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/nda-s-crop-insurance-scheme-bigger-scam-than-rafale-p-sainath-118110300875_1.html

A Amarender Reddy. Here’s why 40% of India’s farmers want to quit. 24 July 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/here-s-why-40-of-india-s-farmers-want-to-quit-61177

The Wire. Begin Another March to Mumbai as Demands Remain Unfulfilled. 21 November 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/farmers-begin-another-march-to-mumbai-as-demands-remain-unfulfilled

Richard Mahapatra. Drought forever. 25 August 2015.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/blog/drought-forever-44976

Vivek Kaul. No land of plenty for Indian farmers. 23 October 2018.
Retrieved from: http://www.forbesindia.com/column/leaderboard/no-land-of-plenty-for-indian-farmers/51615/1

Jitendra. Farmers suffer as states yet to declare drought. 23 November 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/agriculture/farmers-suffer-as-states-yet-to-declare-drought-62079

Abeer Kapoor. Agrarian Riots And Rural Distress: Is India’s Countryside Burning? 19 October 2016.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/is-the-countryside-burning

Kathryn Hansen. Groundwater gains in India. NASA. 21 September 2017.
Retrieved from: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=91008

Financial Express. Fasal Bima Yojana: Farmers still unaware of Modi’s crop insurance scheme details; survey reveals why. 20 August 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/fasal-bima-yojana-farmers-still-unaware-of-modis-crop-insurance-scheme-details-survey-reveals-why/1286243/

KP Narayana Kumar. Why crop insurance schemes fail poor farmers when they are needed the most. 26 April 2015.
Retrieved from: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/why-crop-insurance-schemes-fail-poor-farmers-when-they-are-needed-the-most/articleshow/47052185.cms

P. Sainath. A bumper crop in insurance for corporations. 12 November 2018.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/a-bumper-crop-in-insurance-for-corporations

Financial Express. Economic Survey 2017-18: Agriculture – Climate change likely to lower farmers’ income by 25%. 30 January 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.financialexpress.com/budget/economic-survey-2017-18-agriculture-climate-change-likely-to-lower-farmers-income-by-25/1035560/

Jamwal, M. Centre’s New Drought Manual Likely to Aggravate Farm Distress. 26 January 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/centres-new-drought-manual-likely-aggravate-farm-distress

The World Bank. India Groundwater: a Valuable but Diminishing Resource. 6 March 2012.
Retrieved from: http://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2012/03/06/india-groundwater-critical-diminishing

Chaturvedi, S. Land Reforms Fail; 5% of India’s Farmers Control 32% Land. 4 May 2016.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/land-reforms-fail-5-of-indias-farmers-control-32-land

Reports

Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib. Village wise List of Rural Suicide Cases pertaining to (Block Moonak, Lehragaga and Budhlada) District Sangrur for the period from 1988 to August, 2016.

Kalgidhar Trust, Baru Sahib. Kalgidhar Trust Baru Sahib Information Form 2016. 2016

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. The future of food and agriculture, Trends and challenges. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://www.fao.org/3/a-i6881e.pdf

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India. Serving Farmers and Saving Farming: First Report. 2004.
Retrieved from: https://ruralindiaonline.org/resources/serving-farmers-and-saving-farming-first-report/

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India. Serving Farmers and Saving Farming: From Crisis to Confidence – Second Report 2005.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/NCF2a%20%281%29.pdf

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India. Serving Farmers and Saving Farming; 2006: Year of Agricultural Renewal – Third Report. 2006.
Retrieved from: http://www.agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/NCF3.pdf

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India. Serving Farmers and Saving Farming; Jai Kisan: A Draft National Policy for Farmers – Fourth Report. 2006.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/NCF4%20%281%29.pdf

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India. Serving Farmers and Saving Farming; Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth of Farmers’ Welfare – Fifth & Final Report, Volume I. 2006.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/NCF5%20Vol.-1%20%281%29.pdf

National Commission on Farmers, Government of India, (2006). Serving Farmers and Saving Farming: Towards Faster and More Inclusive Growth of Farmers’ Welfare – Fifth Report, Volume II. 2006.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/NCF5%20Vol.-2%20%281%29.pdf

PRS Legislative Research. Report Summary Swaminathan Committee on Farmers. 2006.
Retrieved from: http://www.prsindia.org/sites/default/files/parliament_or_policy_pdfs/1242360972–final%20summary_pdf_0.pdf

National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs. Crime in India. 2016.
Retrieved from: http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/CII/CII2016/pdfs/Crime%20Statistics%20-%202016.pdf

National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs. Crime in India. 2015. Page 47.
Retrieved from: http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/CII/CII2015/FILES/CrimeInIndia2015.pdf

National Crime Records Bureau, Ministry of Home Affairs. Accidental Deaths and Suicides in India 2015. 2015.
Retrieved from: http://ncrb.gov.in/StatPublications/ADSI/ADSI2015/adsi-2015-full-report.pdf

Department of Agriculture, Cooperation & Farmers Welfare. Manual for Drought Management. 2016. Page 3-16.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.nic.in/sites/default/files/Manual%20Drought%202016.pdf

Shrayana Bhattacharya, Vanita Leah Falcao and Raghav Puri. The Public Distribution System in India. 2017. Page 45-47.
Retrieved from: http://pubdocs.worldbank.org/en/901801506434971394/Chapter-2.pdf

National Sample Survey Organization, Government of India. Consumption Expenditure of Farmer Households. 2003.
Retrieved from: http://planningcommission.gov.in/sectors/agri_html/CE%20of%20farmer%20households%2059%20round%202003.pdf

NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey 2016-17. NAFIS. 2017. Page 72-74,
Retrieved from: https://www.nabard.org/auth/writereaddata/tender/1608180417NABARD-Repo-16_Web_P.pdf

NITI Aayog, Government of India. Composite water management index. June 2018.
Retrieved from: http://niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/2018-05-18-Water-Index-Report_vS8-compressed.pdf

Oxfam India, Policy Brief Demanding Rights for All. 8 October 2013.
Retrieved from: https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/304918/bn-when-women-farm-india’s-land-increasing-ownership-301013-en.pdf;jsessionid=77EC98FE523A1EBC9DC5784F37F5D91C?sequence=1

Press Information Bureau,Government of India, Ministry of Finance. Agricultural Mechanization Picks up Pace. 29 January 2018.
Retrieved from: http://www.pib.nic.in/Pressreleaseshare.aspx?PRID=1518097

India Meteorological Department, Government of India. Rainfall Statistics of India – 2017. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://hydro.imd.gov.in/hydrometweb/(S(ydfklymfqbjtqnzug0k4yr45))/PRODUCTS/Publications/Rainfall%20Statistics%20of%20India%20-%202017/Rainfall%20Statistics%20of%20India%20-%202017.pdf

ICAR-Central Institute of Post Harvest Engineering & Technology. Assessment of Quantitative Harvest And Post-Harvest Losses of Major Crops and Commodities in India. 2015.
Retrieved from: http://www.ciphet.in/upload/sphl/MOFPI%20REPORT1.pdf

Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Economic Survey – Volume I, Agriculture: More from Less – Chapter 4. 2016.
Retrieved from: https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget2016-2017/es2015-16/echapvol1-04.pdf

Ministry of Finance. Budget 2018-2019, Speech of Arun Jaitley. 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/ub2018-19/bs/bs.pf

Ministry of Finance. Budget 2017-2018, Speech of Arun Jaitley. 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/budget2017-2018/ub2017-18/bs/bs.pdf

Dalwai Committee Report. Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://agricoop.gov.in/sites/default/files/DFI%20Volume%201.pdf

Dalwai Committee Report, 2017-18. Report of the Committee on Doubling Farmers’ Income Volume IV “Post-production interventions: Agricultural Marketing”. Page 233.
Retrieved from: http://farmer.gov.in/imagedefault/DFI/DFI%20Volume%204.pdf

Agriculture Division Department of Agriculture, Co-operation & Farmers Welfare Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare Government of India. Agriculture Census 2015-16. 2016. Page 6-9.
Retrieved from: http://agcensus.nic.in/document/agcen1516/T1_ac_2015_16.pdf

Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Economic Survey 2017-18 – Volume 1. 2017. Page 84.
Retrieved from: http://mofapp.nic.in:8080/economicsurvey/

Ministry of Finance, Government of India. Economic Survey 2017-18 – Volume 2. 2017. Page 20.
Retrieved from: http://mofapp.nic.in:8080/economicsurvey/

Gian Singh, Anupama, Gurinder Kaur, Rupinder Kaur, Sukhvir Kaur. Indebtedness among Farmers and Agricultural Labourers in Rural Punjab. 11 February 2017.
Retrieved from: http://www.im4change.org/siteadmin/tinymce/uploaded/Indebtedness%20among%20Farmers%20and%20%20Agricultural%20labourers%20in%20Rural%20Punjab.pdf

Global Research. The Seeds Of Suicide: How Monsanto Destroys Farming. 21 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-seeds-of-suicide-how-monsanto-destroys-farming/5329947

Arvind Kumar. Law aiding Monsanto is reason for Delhi’s annual smoke season. 30 December 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/12191-law-aiding-monsanto-reason-delhi-s-annual-smoke-season

Devinder Sharma. Modi Government’s Agricultural Market Reforms: Old (and Discredited) Wine in a New Bottle? 23 May 2017.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/modi-agricultural-market-reforms

Tim Hanstad, Robin Nielsen, and Jennifer Brown. Land and Livelihoods Making Land Rights Real for India’s Rural Poor. May 2004.
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NITI Aayog, Government of India. Raising Agricultural Productivity and Making Farming Remunerative for Farmers. 16 December 2015.
Retrieved from: http://www.niti.gov.in/writereaddata/files/document_publication/Raising Agricultural%20Productivity%20and%20Making%20Farming%20Remunerative%20for%20Farmers.pdf

Films

Mathieu Roy. The Dispossessed. 2017. Quebec: LOWIK MEDIA, MIRA FILM, ONF.

Journals

Gigesh Thomas and Johan De Tavernier, J. Farmer-suicide in India: debating the role of biotechnology. The National Center for Biotechnology Information. Volume 13. December 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5427059/

Sukhpal Singh and Tejinder K. Dhaliwal. The Status of Commission Agent System in Punjab Agriculture. Ind. Jn. of Agri. Econ. Vol.66, No.4, Oct.- Dec. 2011.
Retrieved from: https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/204788/2/07-Sukhpal%20Singh.pdf

V.G Sumathy and T.Savitha. Impact of Demonetisation in Agriculture Sector. IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. PP 35-38. 2017.
Retrieved from: http://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Conf.DAGCBEDE/Volume-1/10.%2035-38.pdf

Images

Aditya Waikul. Drought. 20 April 2016.
Retrieved from: https://adityawaikul.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/drought/

Joshua Stevens. GROUNDWATER GAINS IN INDIA. 21 September 2017.
Retrieved from: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=91008

Sonu Mehta. From getting whipped to eating grass, mice and more: Tamil Nadu farmers’ bizarre protest for aid. 30 April 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/india-news/tamil-nadu-farmers-protest-innovatively-seek-aid-relief/photo-D9dBsq05TfgFEbCsZMvO1L.html

Arun Sharma. Farmers raise slogans during the Kisan Kranti Padyatra on the Delhi-UP border. 2 October 2018.
Retrieved from: https://thewire.in/agriculture/in-photos-grim-gandhi-jayanti-kisan-rally

Ravi Choudhary. From getting whipped to eating grass, mice and more: Tamil Nadu farmers’ bizarre protest for aid. 30 April 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.hindustantimes.com/photos/india-news/tamil-nadu-farmers-protest-innovatively-seek-aid-relief/photo-D9dBsq05TfgFEbCsZMvO1L.html

Danish Sidddiqui. Farmers shout slogans against the government at a rally organised by All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS) in Mumbai, India. 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-farmers-march/thousands-of-farmers-march-to-indias-mumbai-to-demand-help-idUSKCN1GO09Vrom

Hindustan Times. At least 300 women are engaged in digging wells and are paid under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme. 7 May 2017.
Retrieved from: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/battling-unrelenting-drought-kerala-women-dig-180-wells-to-quench-thirst/story-YRGMdlT9XXR7G6nGaZrarL.html

ANI. Another Farmers Protest, They Bury Themselves Neck Deep In Sand Over Cauvery Water Dispute. 7 April 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.indiatimes.com/news/india/another-farmers-protest-they-bury-themselves-neck-deep-in-sand-over-cauvery-water-dispute-342979.html

Indranil Mukherjee. Indian farmers during a protest in Mumbai in March. Thousands of them walked more than 100 miles to protest the country’s agrarian crisis. 13 April 2018.
Retrieved from: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/india-farmers-crisis.html