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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

Jagrup S. Sekhon
Affiliation:
Guru Nanak Dev University
Paramjit S. Judge
Affiliation:
Guru Nanak Dev University, India
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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 India
Caste, Religion and Borderlands
, pp. 237 - 252
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2014

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