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For women in India's Maharashtra, land brings basic rights

By: Rina Chandran


Date: 27 June 2016


Source: Thomson Reuters Foundations 


In drought-hit Marathwada, the poorest region in India's western Maharashtra state, there is an unusually high number of single women. Some were widowed after their farmer husbands committed suicide because of debt; others were abandoned because they didn't produce a son, while some were left behind when their husbands left to search for work.


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