Subject(s): Rural poor in India, South in Congresses. -- Structural adjustment (Economic policy) in India in Congresses. -- India in Economic policy in1947- in Congresses. -- policy research and voluntary action : PRAVA- concept and history, sample design and profile, economic reforms and poor -- New economic polices debating the issue : From structural adjustment to structural change, structural adjustment, multinational corporations and rural development, where the reforms do not reach- rural poor in vicinity of Bangalore -- Mapping the periphery : Poor communities in southern states, levels and intensity of poverty in southern states and study villages, deprivation- social dimension, food security, prices and consumption patters