Technological change for rural development in India

The work provides an alternative to the study of factors interacting with Science, Technology and Society within a Science Policy perspective. It analyses the horizontal transfer of technology in the rural areas to delineate the phenomenon of technological change in the Indian rural developmental context.
It ducidates the induced techno logical change' in tools, techniques terms of the and products diffused in the various sectors of production and consumption, such as agriculture, fisheries, industry, trade and commerce, household and electrification, over a period of time from, 1951 to 1977, based on extensive field research from household level to the highest organisational level in the state. Its impact has been studied from the magnitude of its interaction with some relevant socio-economic and organisational factors in different sectors. On the basis of the empirical evidences the 'induced model of rural development' initiated by a technological change, mainly in the agriculture sector has been held as inadequate for rural development planning in the country to p sit a model of integrated sectoral development and technology policy thereof. A study of this kind is rarely attempted within the frame work of interaction of science, techno logy and society.
Authenticity and depth being its hallmark it should prove valuable to a wide spectrum of scholars in the field of Science Policy, Sociology, Economics and Rural Development as well as to those who are in the arena o planning and policy making on rural development.