ABSTRACT

The village of Pimple Saudagar was chosen as a suitable one for the purpose. Intimate relations with all the village people of every type were established. Crops, wells, irrigation, sub-division and fragmentation of land, were all studied in detail, and the intimate contact with the people enabled us to get a fairly complete account of such matters as debts and the general economic position of every part of the population. The village has become less isolated as a result of the construction of good roads both to Poona and Kirkee. It has become one of the sources of milk-supply to Poona and to this extent there has been intensification of the agriculture of the village. The main impression that one gets as to the general economy of the village is the decline of agriculture as shown by the abandonment of well irrigation, in spite of the dam across the river and the possibility of great extension of irrigation.