Debt and Death in Rural India is a study of farmer suicides in rural Punjab during the mid-1980s. Based on comprehensive original research work, it examines various factors, ranging from central to state policies, as well as economic and social trends, that led to the dismal conditions of the farmers during the period between 1988 to 2000. This study presents a unique trajectory on issue of farmer suicides and contextualizes the problem within a historical and geographical framework.