ABSTRACT
Peasants are seen as "rural people in old civilizations, who control and cultivate their land for subsistence and as a part of a traditional way of life and who look to and are influenced by gentry or townspeople whose way of life is like theirs but in more civilized form". The primitive way and view of life are modified by at least two considerations: a new or different type of relationship to the land and new and different types of relationships to the non-peasant members of a larger society or culture or civilization. Robert Redfield had stated in his paper on "The Peasant's View of the Good Life" that "the peasantry constitutes a kind of resting place in the long march from tribal life to a world of universal urbanity". The integration called "peasant" represents a stage of human development. The advances of modern technology are among several factors tending toward the undermining of peasant life.
