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 Management in Post Reform Era" is an attempt to further the vision of SAVERA in the field of rural management. Collectively, the book puts forward the idea of rural management with Indian perspective. Since the existing literature suggests that management of rural resource is a powerful tool to run a sustainable economy. Therefore, it becomes obligatory to produce a complete literature of rural management. The present edition is a collection of scholarly research papers on the various concerns of rural management.

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.