The GEM India Report 2021-22 is an outcome of collective efforts of GEM India consortium that strives to capture and understand the current state of affairs in Indian entrepreneurship. This report provides information on the entrepreneurship ecosystem prevailing in the country and entrepreneurial activities being carried out in various states. The GEM India study, conducted using a well-established GEM research methodology that is consistent across all participating countries, generates a variety of relevant primary information on different aspects of entrepreneurship and provides harmonised measures about individuals' attributes and their activities in different phases of entrepreneurship. The key outcomes of research reported in the book are relevant to researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs, and corporate houses.

The GEM India 2020-21 report, explains the key aspects of entrepreneurship among Indians, by measuring their attitudes, activities and aspirations. The findings of the report, provide the policy-makers, a foundation for reviewing the current and prospective policies. The major findings and appropriate recommendations for policy-making are highlighted under the conclusion section of this report. The report uses a sample survey of 3,317 adults and national level experts..

The GEM India report 2019-20 is an outcome of collective efforts of the GEM India consortium that strives to capture and understand the current state of affairs in Indian entrepreneurship. This report provides information on the entrepreneurship ecosystem prevailing in the country and entrepreneurial activities being carried out at the regional level. This report is the fourth national-level report by the GEM India Team. The GEM India study, conducted using a well-established GEM research methodology that is consistent across all participating countries, generates a variety of relevant primary information on different aspects of entrepreneurship and provides harmonized measures about individual's attributes and their activities in different phases of entrepreneurship. The key outcomes of the research reported in the book are relevant to researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and corporate houses.

The GEM India report 2018-19 is an outcome of collective efforts of the GEM India consortium that strives to capture and understand the current state of affairs in Indian entrepreneurship. This report provides information on the entrepreneurship ecosystem prevailing in the country and entrepreneurial activities being carried out at the regional level. This report is the fourth national-level report by the GEM India Team. The GEM India study, conducted using a well-established GEM research methodology that is consistent across all participating countries, generates a variety of relevant primary information on different aspects of entrepreneurship and provides harmonized measures about individual's attributes and their activities in different phases of entrepreneurship. The key outcomes of the research reported in the book are relevant to researchers, policymakers, entrepreneurs and corporate houses.

The Society for Advancement of Villagers' Education and Rural Assistance (SAVERA) is working for rural development and nation building. It is a forum of professionals, research scientists, social scientists, reformists, technocrats, and agriculturists, to provide critical inputs on major issues, relevant to development of rural India and to seek appropriate representation on the various committees, bodies, delegations, teams etc. at the State, National and International level. One of the objectives of SAVERA is to develop the literature on rural development, rural entrepreneurship, rural management, traditional knowledge, women entrepreneurship and Indian way of knowledge management. This book is the part of the SAVERA's objective. "Rural Development in Post Colonial Era" book will raise the prospective issues related to rural development in the stakeholders and society. When academia is talking much about bottom of the pyramid, it is a need to produce a thematic book on rural development. This book contains the scholarly written research papers on the emerging issues of rural development.

The Society for Advancement of Villagers' Education and Rural Assistance (SAVERA) is consistently working towards the rural development and nation building. The forum encourages manifold developmental activities in the field of research. It is a consortium of professionals, research scientists, social scientists, reformists, technocrats, and agriculturists, which offers critical inputs on development of rural India. One of the objectives of SAVERA is to develop the literature on rural entrepreneurship, rural development, rural management, traditional knowledge, women entrepreneurship and Indian way of knowledge management. However, "Rural Entrepreneurship Development in Liberalised Era" is an attempt to further the vision of SAVERA in the field of entrepreneurship. Collectively, the book puts forward the idea of rural entrepreneurship with Indian perspective. Since the existing literature suggests that entrepreneurship is a powerful tool to run a sustainable economy. Therefore, it becomes obligatory to produce a complete literature of rural entrepreneurship. The present edition is a collection of scholarly research papers on the various concerns of rural entrepreneurship development.

Approximately 500,000 villages and over 1.2 billion people, India has agriculture as the basic occupation. In reality, Indian village life is a mixture of tranquility and innocence and that is far simple and easy to live. The villages of India are connected through a variety of essential linkages with other villages and with urban areas both near and far. Most villages are characterized by multiplicity of economic, caste, similarity, occupational and even religious groups link vertically within each settlement. Factionalism is a typical feature of village politics. In one of the first of the modern anthropological studies of Indian village life, anthropologist Oscar Lewis called this complexity "rural cosmopolitanism." Access to wealth and power varies significantly and vast differences in socioeconomic status are evident everywhere. The poor and the wealthy live side by side in urban and rural areas. Current book has covered a judicious mix of social and economic facts of Indian villages. This book analyzed the state of rural families in the context of their household income and essential expenditure.