FARMER’S SUICIDS IN KARNATAKA: A SOCIOLOGICAL STUDY

Abstract

The renowned French Sociologist Emily Durkheim published a scientific study called ‘suicides’ in 1897. The study looked at suicides from a sociological angle and declared that suicides are a social phenomenon. This observation has become a fact of life for the farmers of Karnataka. Farmer’s suicides in Karnataka have increased due to various social factors and have badly shattered their self confidence.