Harvest of Death

Farmers’ Suicides and Rural Starvation in the Shadow of Globalisation

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

The Indian Institute of Marxist Studies has produced this booklet in response to the current crisis gripping Indian agriculture, and as part of an ongoing commitment to critically address the key challenges facing the Indian people in the era of imperialist globalisation.

V. Shankar is a Central Committee Member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist).

R. Vidyasagar is a scholar-activist who has worked extensively on issues relating to rural labour and agriculture.