Indian Journal of Economics July 1939

The officials of the various nation-building departments Agriculture Industries Cooperative Excise and Irrigation will have an opportunity of coming into contact with the village community as a whole at the meetings of the society and of explaining either the policy of the Government or the better and improved methods which will lead to the improvement of the village in any particular directio [...] The minimum may therefore be within the means of the humblest resident of the village; or the minimum may be of two kinds—eight annas or one rupee per annum for a particular class and four annas per annum for the members of the Harijan community. [...] As a matter of fact in one village in the Fyzabad district I found that the Secretary of the society had gone to the length of keeping a register of all the inmates of the village with full particulars as to their names sex age caste and creed. [...] The majority of urban dwellers in the world live in rurban centres taking the form of country-towns which have hardly developed industries but which subserve the most important function of collecting the agricultural produce from the entire region for distribution and of directing and co-ordinating the sale of imports and manufactured goods. [...] The marked difference in the constitution of the popultion between the industrial and non-industrial areas in Bengal manifests the excessive mobility of the former.