Village Voices
Forty Years of Rural Transformation in South India
- T Scarlett Epstein - Scarlett Epstein Social Assessment Consultancy
- A P Suryananrayana - Government of India
- T Thimmegowda - Government of India
This book sets out in detail, and in a very engaging manner, the thrills as well as the difficulties involved in living with and at the same time studying rural societies. A unique feature of this absorbing account is that it documents forty years of change (both positive and negative) in two villages of south India by the same team of researchers.
`The study is remarkable in the spread of its coverage, the objectivity and range of the analysis and its time-span. Its empathy with village culture and individuals' aspirations is likely to make it one of the great classic studies of rural development, as well as a mine of information for future historians of Indian society in the 20th century' - Worldaware