Significance of rural development; agrarian question; peasants, capitalism and paths of transformation; agriculture and rural development; Issues in agricultural development- new agricultural technology, tenancy, agricultural marketing; green revolution and appropriate technology; land reforms; agrarian systems and the state; agriculture and rural credit markets-micro-credit; WTO and agriculture; integrated rural development and government programmes; decentralization and participatory rural development.

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2. M. Morner, and T. Svensson, 1991. The Transformation of Rural Society in the Third World, London: Routledge

3. A. Shepherd, 1998, Sustainable Rural Development, London: Macmillan Press.

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