This chapter examines the phenomenon of agrarian suicides in rural Punjab through the interrelated lenses of economy with dignity, humiliation, masculinity, and caste. Moving along with the economic base, it explores the lived experiences of rural individuals and communities, focusing on how notions of self-respect and social recognition shape responses to the existing or rising agrarian distress. The chapter begins by theorizing humiliation in rural India, framing it as a structural and emotional condition rooted in socio-economic conditioning which is being exercised through caste, landlessness, and indebtedness. It then explores the idea of anakh,a culturally embedded idea of self-respect in Punjabi agrarian life, and its entanglement with masculinity, honor, and family responsibilities. This approach reveals how male farmers and laborers often perceive failure in agriculture or inability to provide as a profound blow to their identity, sometimes leading to suicide as a response to perceived dishonor. The political sociology of suicide is then discussed, situating individual acts within broader patterns of structural violence. By examining national data and state-specific trends, the chapter locates Punjab’s peasant suicides within the wider agrarian crisis in India. In response, two contrasting but interconnected forms of resistance are explored: the massive 2020–2021 farmer protest as a collective reclamation of rural dignity, and the movement by Dalits of Malwa under the Zameen Prapti Sangharsh Committee, which redefines dignity from the margins through land rights struggles. The chapter argues that suicide and protest are not oppositional, but reflect two poles of agency of self-respect, in a context marked by humiliation, asserting that any serious engagement with rural suicides should be studied within the socio-political dimensions of dignity in agrarian Punjab.