Abstract

                                Actuarians have it that 90 per cent of the Indian people live in rural areas while only 10 per cent of it constitute the Intelligentsia. India is predomi- nantly an agricultural country and the majority of the people must remain agriculturists. The efforts of both the social ameliorist and the political worker need to be concentrated as the Times says upon promoting an enquiry which concerns the welfare of over four-fifths of the three-hundred and twenty millions of people who inhabit India.' The rural world has need of fundamental change if it is to be saved from decay-change both in its economic structure and in its 'philosophy of life.'

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