Divide and rule
the rural planning approach in India has mainly been one of trials and errors. Piles of documents are gathering dust in the national archives to substantiate the belief that the reforms in the countryside have not been based upon a well-researched positive and integrative approach to village life. The main reason behind the policy failures in poverty alleviation and the blatant misuse of the village resources has been the segmental dealing of the village system. Village governance has been constantly compromised to maintain the conceptual dichotomy between agricultural development and agrarian reforms prevailing since the colonial times.
Village development since the British era has been based on two central tenets: Firstly, the bureaucratised science, more appropriately referred to as the
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