Emerging Development in Social Culture

Contents: Preface. 1. The background. 2. Caste system in India. 3. The religious factors. 4. Opportunities for education. 5. Government\'s role. 6. Panchayati Raj. 7. Self-governance. 8. Rural farm products. 9. Agriculture economy. 10. Development of rural sector. 11. The social dimensions. 12. The society under change. 13. Rural area. 14. Village society, through the ages. 15. The rural folk life. Index.

"While rural religion tends to be crude and concrete in form, urbanized religion has tended to be abstract. While the rural population worships and falls prostrate before a multitude of Gods and Goddesses derived out of their animistic conception of the universe, the cultured educated section of the urban humanity subscribes to the idealistic view of the universe and discusses such categories as the nature of Brahman free will and others. There is another reason why the rural man must be an educated man. Education is also the prerequisite for the study and assimilation of the rich culture which has developed in the contemporary age. Education is essential for the rural people also for the broad social reason that all social relations between citizens are in the modern society governed by the principle of contract and not by status as in the farmer epoch." (jacket)