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This book sets out in detail, and in a very engaging manner, the thrills as well as the difficulties involved in living with and at the same time studying rural societies. A unique feature of this absorbing account is that it documents forty years of change (both positive and negative) in two villages of south India by the same team of researchers.
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Describes the joys and difficulties of studying rural societies from within, while describing changes in education, agriculture, the economy, and the socio-political scene in two villages studied by the same researchers from 1954 to 1970. The authors include one early and one recent (1996) diagrammatic sketch map for each of the villages. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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