Rural Transformation, Perspectives from Village Studies in Andhra Pradesh

Rural Transformation, Perspectives from Village Studies in Andhra Pradesh PDF Author: G. Niranjan Rao
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Category : Kotha Armur (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 570

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Book Description
This volume on rural transformation in Andhra Pradesh is an outcome of a part of a larger research project on village studies to analyse various facets of rural change and transformation in different States of South India initiated in 1996 at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram.// The volume includes village restudies with varying themes, methodologies and periods as focus, but yet bring out certain salient features of rural transformation over a period of about half a century in different regions of Andhra Pradesh. The range of these studies consist of some comprehensive resurvey of villages, certain specific thematic dimensions of change like gender and education, and focused analysis of the changing conditions of life and livelihood of certain tribal communities. It also includes a paper, which is a novel attempt to reconstruct rural transformation as seen from creative realist Telugu fiction.