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Suicide and Society in India

In India about 123,000 people take their own lives each year, the second highest total in the world. There is a suicide death in India almost every four minutes, and it is the leading cause of death for rural Indians, especially women, in early adulthood. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of suicide in India based on original research as well as existing studies, and looks at the issue in an international, sociological and historical context.

The author looks at the reliability of suicide data in India, and goes on to discuss various factors relating to suicide, including age, gender, education and marriage. Among its findings, the book exposes a hidden youth suicide crisis in India, which is argued to be far more serious than the better known crisis of farmer suicides. The book dispels many myths that are commonly associated with suicide, and highlights a neglected public health problem. Suicide in the region of Pondicherry is examined in detail, as well as in the Indian Diaspora. This book is a useful contribution to South Asian studies, as well as studies in mental health and sociology.

Peter Mayer is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Adelaide. His research interests include suicide in India; the privatisation of state-owned enterprises; the masculinisation of the Indian population; civic engagement and social capital in human development and state weakness in South Asia. He is series editor for the Routledge/ASAA South Asian Publications Series.

Routledge/ASAA South Asian Publications Series

Edited by Peter Mayer, Politics Department, University of Adelaide, Australia

Published in Association with the Australian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA), represented by Maria Roces, chair of the ASAA Publications Committee, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Founded in 1986 to publish outstanding work in the social sciences and humanities, the SAPS entered a new phase in 2010 when it joined with Routledge to continue a notable tradition of Australian-based research about South Asia. Works in the series are published in both UK and Indian editions.

SAPS publishes outstanding research on the countries and peoples of South Asia across a wide range of disciplines including history, politics and political economy, anthropology, geography, literature, sociology and the fields of cultural studies, communication studies and gender studies. Interdisciplinary and comparative research is encouraged.

SAPS is edited by Dr Peter Mayer (University of Adelaide: ) who welcomes any inquiries. Prospective authors, including PhD candidates, are encouraged to submit a one-to-three page abstract plus annotated chapter outline, a sample chapter and a curriculum vitae copy for initial consideration.

1. Suicide and Society in India

Peter Mayer

Suicide and Society in India

Peter Mayer

With

Clare Bradley
Della Steen
Tahereh Ziaian

LONDON AND NEW YORK

First published 2011
by Routledge
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2011 Peter Mayer

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Designs and Patent Act 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mayer, Peter.
Suicide and society in India / Peter Mayer.
p. cm. (Routledge/ASAA South Asian series; 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 9780415589383 (hardback) ISBN 9780203840085
(ebook) 1. SuicideIndia. 2. SuicideSociological aspects. I. Title.
HV6548.I5M39 2010
362.280954dc22
2010018637

ISBN 0-203-84008-9 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 9780415589383 (hbk)

ISBN 9780203840085 (ebk)

For Eddie and Kay
Braha
Lata, Asha & Janak

Contents

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1.1	Worldwide deaths by cause (%)
1.2	Selected causes of death per cent worldwide
1.3	Suicide rates per 100,000 in India, 1999
1.4	Trend in global and Indian suicide rates (per 100,000), by gender, 19501995
1.5	Suicide can never be justified: World Values Survey, 19951996
3.1	Interaction line plot for decades, interaction effect between decades and regions
4.1	Unclassified suicides, 19671997
4.2	Causes of suicides, 19672007
5.1	All-India methods of suicides, 19672007
5.2	Regional rates of suicide by poisoning
6.1	Trend of suicides 18721950
6.2	Suicide rate Bengal/West Bengal, 18722007
6.3	All-India suicide rate, 19672008
6.4	Trend of suicides in South India, 19672008
6.5	Trend of suicides in West India, 19672008
6.6	Trend of suicide rates in Northwest India, 19672008
6.7	Trend of suicides in East India, 19672008
6.8	Trend of suicides in Northeast India, 19672008
6.9	Trend of suicides in North India, 19672008
6.10	Trend in suicides and industrial production, 19651996
6.11	Trends in suicides and urbanisation, 19651996
6.12	Trends in suicide vs non-congress percentage of vote, 19631999
6.13	Suicide rates and opposition unity in the Indian states
7.1	Male and female suicide rates, suicide sex ratios, all India, 19672007

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