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Rural Communities in India
Learning Objectives
- Introduction
- Characteristics of Indian villages
- Importance of villages in India
- Factors shaping the growth of village communities
- Rural health
- Changes in rural life
- Rural reconstruction programmes
- Special programmes
- Community development programme
- Twenty-Point Programme
- Panchayati Raj: Democratic decentralization
- Health facilities in rural society
- Rural health-care delivery system
- National rural health mission
1. INTRODUCTION
Rural sociology is the branch of sociology which studies the life of rural people. It is concerned with the rural society, its social structure, its social institutions, and their relationships. It analyses the attitudes and beliefs of the rural people.
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