The Changing Identity of Rural India : A Sociohistoric Analysis

A Sociohistoric Analysis. The book explores the pattern of rural development in contemporary India from a multidisciplinary and historical perspective.

The essays overcome the limits of disciplinary approaches to provide a comprehensive analysis of the processes of change and growth at work in the Indian countryside and to review the social and cultural dynamics that have led to the contemporary situation.

Providing an analysis of the economic, political and social changes experienced in rural India, they examine the interactions between actors and institutions at different levels.

Some contributions focus on the impact