Social Concepts in Rural India by Dr. Birendra (Ias), Dr. Abhishek Chauhan, Dr. Rajkumar Mahto

This book on Rural Development in India comprises of eight units which focus to reconstruct the importance of villages in India since time immemorial. The authors have very well tried their level best to provide a historical and conceptual clarity on various aspects of Indian villages. The authors have discussed about the types and characteristics of Indian villages with focus on theoretical concepts like—Sanskritisation, Westernisation, Globalisation, Tribe-Caste-Continum. Focus has also been made on the practice of Jajmani System within the Indian villages. Above all the well-defined and chronological sequence of Indian village studies has been explained in this book.