Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Social Exclusion in India: Perspectives and Issues
- Part II Empirical Studies: Caste and Religious Exclusion
- Part III Case Studies: borderlands and Social Exclusion
- 11 No Man's Land? Exclusion in the borderbelt of Pujab
- 12 Farmers at the Borderbelt of Pujab: Fencing and Forced Deprivation
- 13 Barbed Wire Fencing and Exclusion of Border Communities
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
12 - Farmers at the Borderbelt of Pujab: Fencing and Forced Deprivation
from Part III - Case Studies: borderlands and Social Exclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I Social Exclusion in India: Perspectives and Issues
- Part II Empirical Studies: Caste and Religious Exclusion
- Part III Case Studies: borderlands and Social Exclusion
- 11 No Man's Land? Exclusion in the borderbelt of Pujab
- 12 Farmers at the Borderbelt of Pujab: Fencing and Forced Deprivation
- 13 Barbed Wire Fencing and Exclusion of Border Communities
- Conclusion
- Contributors
- Index
Summary
Social exclusion has been explained in this chapter as the denial of equal opportunities to a population owing to its spatial location along the border belt of Punjab. As has been brought to public notice with the farmers' suicides, the peasantry in general is passing through a serious crisis for the last few decades. The declining income, rising cost of agricultural inputs, mounting debts and other structural problems have pushed the peasantry into unprecedented crisis with little or no hope for future (Gill and Gill 2006 and Satish 2007). One is in for a rude shock, when one finds the incredible reports of man-made misery heaped on the hapless farmers, fenced off their own fields in the border areas of Punjab, a state where agriculture is of paramount significance. As a matter of fact, farmers in different parts of the country, of late, have become more vocal by taking their grievances to the streets, blocking highways, picketing offices and gheraoing the ministers. When their slogans echo all over the media, the corridors of state legislatures and the parliament, their demands are met halfway. However, it is unfortunate that the grievances of the farmers of the border belt have so far gone unheard. The remedy to their pain and suffering has been a far cry. Many of them cannot be blamed for feeling that they are in a different country.
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- Mapping Social Exclusion in IndiaCaste, Religion and Borderlands, pp. 237 - 252Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014
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