Subject(s): Rural development in India. -- POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy and Cultural Policy. -- SOCIAL SCIENCE in Anthropology in Cultural. -- Indian Rural Transformation -- Rural Livelihood -- Institutional Embeddedness of Indian Rural Capitalism -- Inequality in Rural India -- Social Capital and Poverty Eradication -- Indian Micro finance -- Income-Based estimates vs Consumption-based Estimates of poverty -- occupation Diversification in Rural India -- Literacy rate and Human Development -- Social Movements and Identities -- Agrarial Expansion Under Colonial Rule -- Politics in Rural West Bengal -- Preservation of Agricultural Biodiversity -- Colonial Bureaucracy over the Paraiyans Right over 'waste', 19th century , Tamilnadu