India s rural sector still remains underdeveloped to a great extent inspite of her impressive achievements in the field of technology, science, human resources development, Industry and Green Revolution. The developmental path chosen by Indian planners has failed to evenly spread the developmental benefits in area of health, literacy and minimum subsistence needs. Various social science studies of development processes have either portrayed macro-synoptic scenario largely based upon official statistics or have remained confined to micro level cognitive phenomonologism. The conflicting interest-norm configurations inbuilt into socio-cultural matrices and those generated by developmental inputs have tended to be grossly neglected in social science investigations of rural development processes.

Factional politics, undoubtedly, constitutes a very significant area as well as a pervasive theme in contemporary social science. Factionalism, a growing phenomenon in Indian government and politics, has not only of late, assumed new dimensions but also infected almost all organizations including political parties, interest group, pressure groups, trade unions, voluntary association etc. It is quite disheartening and distressing to observe that even village community and its government and politics are largely as well as deeply affected and afflicted by this all-pervading evil that has spread its tentacles to eat away the very vitals of the Indian rural society. It has assumed so much of importance and significance that it has attracted the attention of social scientists, policy-makers and administrators.

Study conducted in an anonymous village in north Bihar, India.

Monograph on agricultural policy and rural development orientation of the janata political party in post-1977 India - describes political behaviour in rural areas, land development banks, credit cooperatives and other rural cooperatives, rural industries and rural employment, functioning of village local government councils (panchayati raj), action of voluntary organizations, party-government relations, changes in caste relations and agrarian reform. References and statistical tables.

This is the first full-length scholarly study of the Chinese 'core' leader and his role in the Chinese Communist Party's elite politics.

How a black elite fighting racial discrimination reinforced class inequality in postwar America

Monograph on political aspects of rural development in Botswana - describes the historical setting and background to independence, the traditional political system and political partys, local government, major and local community developments and village development committees, self help efforts and future prospects, etc., and includes the role of South Africa R. Bibliography pp. 187 to 199, diagrams, illustrations, maps, references and statistical tables.