Abstract
This chapter discusses policy in the village universe. In considering policy affecting village universes, there are numerous positions of observation from which to think about and judge the issues, even to the identification and definition of goals. The chapter discusses the linkage of the village to region and nation, considering their different interests and the exchanges taking place between them. It presents the village as the interested party in the results of policy and external authority as the primary provider of policy. This is close enough to the facts of the real world for an initial examination, but it is not the final reality. A village is, almost by definition, a small cluster of residences occupied continuously by families engaged in rural, usually agricultural, pursuits. While this might be considered to be something of a norm, variations in every factor are extremely common. A strong and conscious trend in colonial and imperial governments in the 19th and 20th centuries, except where immigrant plantation villages were concerned, has been to exert pressures for social life to organize in villages according to this norm.
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