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.