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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book deals with the basic concepts and fundamentals associated with rural sociology. An elaborate effort has been made to present all necessary and important concepts, facts and aspects of rural sociology to be particularly useful to undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, extension education, sociology rural development and other related fields. The book orients more towards rural society of India and similar developing countries of the world. The book will be of help in building their insight and understanding about the behavioral pattern of rural society. The book will help scholars to analyze thoughts and attitudes regarding prevailing and emerging situation as related to rural community. It will help encourage people from different sections by encouraging them to step up rural education, rural polity, rural development, rural transformation, rural poverty, etc. by serving as a catalyst or as a key person in the overall process of rural transformation.

This book has 27 chapters. The subject matter incorporated in each chapter include origin, development and basic concept besides discussing and analysing characteristic features, importance, significance, scope, factors, types and several other sub headings and subtopics to be very useful for the student community, extension workers, administrators, policy makers and all those concerned with the rural transformation in general and agricultural development in particular.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Gaytri Tiwari, a specialist in Human Development and Family Studies from Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, pursued her Ph.D. in Psychology from Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur. She has vast experience of 22 years in teaching, research and extension. Dr. Gaytri Tiwari has been conferred Best Teacher Award (2007) by Rotary Mewar; Excellence in Teaching (2008) by Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Bhaskar Woman of the year Award (2010)  for public and social service at zonal  level and Best Teacher Award (2010) by Narayan Seva Sansthan.

As a researcher she has to her credit more than 211 research papers, articles and expert comments in national and international journals, popular magazines and Newspaper in both Hindi and English. She has prepared Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) which has been published by National Psychological Corporation (NPC), Agra. She has presented papers in more than 65 Seminars, Conferences, Workshops and Trainings in India and Abroad at China, Malaysia, South Africa and Canada to name a view. She has been a key member in selection committees of Nursery, Primary and secondary School teachers, technical advisor in research committees of JATAN and Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth (Deemed University). Dr. Tiwari is also a member in Board of Management (BOM),St. Teresa’s Sr. Sec. School, Udaipur; member of SIERT, Udaipur for development of stimulatory educational material for children and curriculum development for  ECCE under National Curriculum Framework (NCF),New Delhi. Her contribution towards building and upliftment of the society has been immense as she has been involved in many NGO’S like Aajeevika Bureau,Aastha and JATAN. She is also a nominated member of Academic Council, MPUAT, Udaipur; CLG (Community Liaison Group) of Mahila police thana, Udaipur and District level Committee for protection of Protection of Sexual harassment at work place.

Apart from all this she is also an excellent orator and has delivered more than 100 of Radio and T.V. talks, Invited lectures, has been panelist  in T.V. programmes and columnist in News paper.

At present she is working as Jr. Scientist in the department of HDFS, College of Home Science, MPUAT, Udaipur (RAJASTHAN)

Prof. L.L. Somani (b1945) holds a brilliant academic record. He started his carrer as Research Assistant and rose to the position of Director of Resident Instruction (MPUAT, Udaipur) from where he superannuated in October, 2005. He has published several books and over 300 research/technical articles in reputed journals. He has been honoured by several awards for his outstanding contributions.

Prof. S.K. Acharya, is a man from Social Science who is famous for his innovative ideas, thoughts and approaches in the aegis of Agricultural Extension. His constructive thoughts and his hard work in academics and the good relationship with the students established him as the benevolent and devotee academic member in Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India around twenty four years.  This erudite and pleasant personality is presently offering his service as the Professor and Head, Department of Agricultural Extension, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, and West Bengal, India. His innovative approaches and concepts in the aegis of Extension Education helps him to establish as the experienced expert in different ODI projects in the specialized area of Participatory Extension, Technology Socialization, Participatory Project Management, Value added Agriculture, Natural Resource Management, Micro Planning, Universalisation of Primary Education, Joint Forest Management. He acted as a member Agriculture Commission, Govt. of West Bengal in extension chapter. Throughout his bright academic period he has also associated with the Distance Education delivered by IGNOU. He has so far published 75 research papers in different National and International Journals and 23 numbers of books. He has participated in international congress of IUAES in Italy, China, Bangladesh as speaker.