Synopsis Cultural Factors in Rural Development provides an insight into understanding the development perspective of the tribals and the images and experiences they have of the tribal development efforts of the government. In this background, cultural explanation of the tribal development is attempted. The book then analyzes the tribal belief structure relevant to development and change. An attempt is also made to measure cultural development as the rate of transition of the tribal belief structure from one based on traditional cultural beliefs to an emerging modern structure based on urban traditional beliefs. In the end, it is shown that a few cultural variables can explain a large portion of the variance in both economic and cultural development. The study is thus a modest but more systematic attempt to address the enduring question: "What difference do cultural factors make in shaping socio-economic development and adjusting to exchange induced by development?