The book deals with important core issues on rural development. The focus throughout remains on enabling the readers to understand the concepts and recent approaches to rural development. The present book will help the readers to comprehend better the issues involved in the process of rural development. On the whole, the book gives a holistic picture of rural development in India. This book will be useful to the students, researchers, teachers, academicians, development workers, planners, policymakers and various development organizations interested in rural development.