Abstract
AbstractThis chapter attempts to understand a link between the state policy for rural and agrarian development and emerging behavioral changes in the rural areas. The evolution of Indian policy thinking shows that rural development has been seen as an addendum to agricultural growth policy. The two important points regarding state policy towards the rural and agricultural development discussed here are how a precise and clear definition of the rural itself lacks in India and, two, how agricultural discourse dominated the very idea of rural development. Evolution of the policy of rural development is explained here in five different phases. This chapter argues that after the initial focus on rural development gradually the idea of agricultural development emphasizing upon farming and production became prominent. It was only in the beginning of twenty-first century that the policy focus on rural development has again received attention.
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