Social change in rural India: helpful and inhibiting factors from the results of diffusion and adoption of innovations on local self government, co-operation (and family planning)
Gupta, B.S.
Sozialer Wandel im landlichen Indien fordernde und hemmende Faktoren der Ergebnisse der Diffusion und Adoption der Innovationen "Lokale Selbstverwaltung", "Genossenschaft" und "Familienplanung": 337
1972
Document Number: 513460
The study is part of a general research project investigating problems of socio-structural change in rural India in general, and the problems of diffusion and adoption of individual elements in the Community Development Programme particularly in selected villages in Mysore and Bihar. The concrete aim of the study is to identify the factors that influence attitudes and behaviour as regards development impulses: (1) towards democratic and co-operative re-structuring of the rural economy drawing in underprivileged groups; (2) democratizing rural and political structures and achieving the agreement of all social groups for the reformation of rural social and economic life through local self-government.