ABSTRACT
India is the second largest nation in the world, with a population of 1.2 billion. As China rapidly urbanizes, India has become the last of the large nations where village life and traditional farm production survives. While weakened by neoliberal reforms many government policies continue to support rural institutions. Could India become the most prominent exception to the trend that over the last century transformed the United States, Russia, Brazil and most recently China from rural to urban nations?
