Correction: Indian cotton
An article on farmers' suicides in India ("The great unravelling", January 18th) described Vidarbha's cotton farmers as "mostly illiterate". But according to an inquiry by the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, only about a fifth of those committing suicide in Maharashtra state were illiterate. We apologise. This error has been corrected online.
This article appeared in the Briefing section of the print edition under the headline “Correction: Indian cotton”
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