Synopsis This book is one of the latest attempts at a sociological analysis of rural community, rural social control and social change, rural social institutions and aspects of society, rural social problems, rural reconstruction, cooperative movement and community development projects and rural welfare in India. A critical survey of different views on these issues in the light of author's own experience of rural life in various parts of the country makes this book equally useful for the student as well as the teacher of rural sociology in India. Armed with latest data in this most important field of sociology the author has made a powerful case for making rural development and welfare the basis of future regeneration of the country.