Rural Development and the agricultural sector, much in the fashion of socialism and empathy for the poor, has acquired any number of exponents and path-finders and people concerned enough to exhort everyone else to practise the ‘faith’—since everyone swears by it as if it were a faith in itself. All manner of learned papers, well-intentioned articles, and copious tomes are churned out ad nauseam. Politicians remind the masses of its importance (Jai Jawan! Jai Kisan!) economists and other academicians want to give it its due place (much more than three-quarters of India lives in the villages!) and governmental training institutions are keen to import a rural orientation to their curricula (witness the National Academy of Administration’s decade-long successful efforts to make their IAS and other probationers live with villagers for nearly two weeks ‘to learn the thing’).
Rural Development: An Overview
ALOK SINHA
RURAL DEVELOPMENT: Principles, Policies and Management by Katar Singh , , 391 pp., 180.00
POLICY AND PERFORMANCE: Agri¬cultural and Rural Development in Post-Independence Indiaby P.R. Dubhashi , , 320 pp., 185.00
THE STATE AND RURAL ECONO¬MIC TRANSFORMATION: The Case of Punjab-1950-85by G.K. Chadha All three books published in 1986 by Sage Publications, India., 1986, 369 pp., 195.00