Surface View of Rural Money Market


out by the author in his introduction, is primarily concerned with investigation and analysts of (a) the nature and composition of organised and unorganised money markets in India, (b) the factors affecting the demand side of agricultural credit, (c) nature and determinants of rural interest rates and (d) the existing links between the two money markets. Historically the various commissions and committees of inquiry which have assessed or examined conditions under which rural credit operated have gone over those aspects. Hut what distinguishes the book under review from the earlier studies is that here an attempt has been made for the first time to analyse the available data on rural credit with the aid of statistical tools.