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The changing village in India
At a time when there are conflicting trends emerging from the national accounts on the state of the economy, it is interesting to look at the village surveys to understand the changing nature of villages and rural India. Photo: Mint
At a time when there are conflicting trends emerging from the national accounts on the state of the economy, it is interesting to look at the village surveys to understand the changing nature of villages and rural India. Photo: Mint
The changing village in India
4 min read . 11 Oct 2016
Himanshu
Among the many ways that village economies have changed over the years, particularly in the last three decades, the most important is the sharp decline in the importance of agricultural
Gilbert Slater, the first professor of economics at Madras University, published his book, Some South Indian Villages, in 1916 following a survey of some villages in Tamil Nadu by his students.
2016 marks the centenary of the publication of this book. While this was not the first survey of villages, it was definitely the first systematic approach to studying rural India through village surveys.
The tradition has continued to this date, with many researchers using comprehensive village surveys to understand the process of change in rural India.
These have included not just single-visit surveys of villages but also a large number of villages which have been surveyed repeatedly. The Slater villages have also been surveyed at different intervals, the last time in 2010