Write a note on indias changing villages
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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.
The availability of large-scale secondary data has not diminished the role of village surveys but, in fact, has helped in improving our understanding of the process of change. 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. An important caveat is in order here. There are more than half a million villages in India and each of them are unique in their social and economic composition. So is the process of change in these villages and the nature of studies of these villages