Village Studies: As a Dimension of Anthropological Tradition in India

Abstract

In India, Village occupies an essential place in the social as well as cultural landscape. Indian village had a substantial unit of diversity. In the history of Indian social sciences, village continuously treated as the basic unit of Indian society. Village studies were for long more or less the stock-in trade of social anthropologists of India. After reviewing number of literatures, it has drawn that the idea of village studies in India started in post-colonial period. Therefore, the present paper aims to illustrate the tradition of village studies in Anthropology from preindependent phase to post-independent phase.