From Indian Village Studies Biplab Dasgupta A great deal of attention has been given in recent years to the need for locality-oriented studies. The need arises out of the dissatisfaction with aggregate data at the national or regional level which conceal important intra-national or intra-regional variations and underplay the complexity of relationships among a multitude of social, economic and political factors.
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