Social change and social research : an Indian perspective

Within the overall theoretical framework of social change, this book highlights how various social and cultural, including ideological and technological or material elements of rural Indian social structures and sub-systems have reacted to intended change paradigm and the inherent philosophy thereof. The objective is not to highlight the changes which have taken place in rural India but the focus is on analysis of directed social change vis-a-vis Indian rural social structure and on the position of social scientists and their researches in the context of change. The author ventures to open up new fronts of social research in the context of social cultural matrix of rural India vis-a-vis in gredients of planned change.

Outcome of such social researches may help provide fillip to the creation of planned change, and consequently development to which the Indian policy makers and planners are deeply com mitted for the last many years.