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.

The study encompasses the status of Indian rural women in Agriculture. It deals with the various issues such as family, health, age, education, skills, and technology employed by rural Indian women. The authors put forth the major constrains faced by these women on economic, technological and social fronts. Of particular relevance for present academic discourse is issue of rural women empowerment. The authors give an insightful observation of the present scenario of rural women. Women in general and Indian rural women in particular can transcend the household boundaries provided the right information and opportunity. Overall, the book focuses on issues and concern of Indian Agriculture and tries to suggest remedial measures for the same.