With the compensation money, Pushpabai of Akpuri village, Vidarbha, repaid her husband's debt to the moneylender, but not to the bank. "A bank will not lend if we default, but a moneylender will, though the interest rates will be high"
With the compensation money, Pushpabai of Akpuri village, Vidarbha, repaid her husband's debt to the moneylender, but not to the bank. (Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)
Devarajula Latha of Chilpuru village, Telangana: Her husband, who was a tenant farmer, did not own land. So Latha is still awaiting compensation as the rules make it difficult for linking tenant farmers' suicide to agrarian distress (Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)
Savita of Borgaon village, Vidarbha: She had to struggle to get the compensation money as both the land and the loan were in her mother-in-law's name (Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)
Bocha Manisha, of Gauraya Palle village, Telangana: Both her parents committed suicide. Later, her grandmother too passed away. She now works to support herself and her brother (Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)
Manjubai of Son Wadhona village, Vidarbha: Debts remain even after death. Manjubai used the compensation money to pay private moneylenders from whom her husband had taken a loan (Photographs: Vijay S Jodha And Oxford University Press)
