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This Volume 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. 1. Introduction -- 2. Previous Studies Of Suicide In India -- 3. The Reliability Of Indian Suicide Data -- 4. The Aetiology Of Suicide In India -- 5. The Methods Of Suicide -- 6. Trends In Suicide In India -- 7. Gender And Suicide -- 8. Age And Suicide -- 9. Urbanisation And Suicide In India -- 10. Education And Suicide -- 11. Occupation And Suicide -- 12. Marriage, The Family And Suicide -- 13. Alcohol And Suicide -- 14. Suicide In The Indian Diaspora -- 15. Suicide In Pondicherry -- 16. Conclusion. Peter Mayer. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [235]-254) And Index.