ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF RURAL BENGAL: A SURVEY OF SIX VILLAGES.

The objective of the article is to study the economic structure of rural Bengal in India and to describe its character and its function. The village economy of India is based on agriculture. Because of the primitive techniques of agricultural production, rural India is often regarded as a subsistence economy and egalitarian society in which the people have a uniformly low financial status. Even within the small range of the income distribution, there is a well-defined income hierarchy of a type production, rural India is often regarded as a subsistence economy and an egalitarian society in which the people have a uniformly low financial status and suffer distress in common. The rate of disintegration of the economy of rural Bengal is gathering momentum. But its form remains the same: that of purely agricultural production; the industrialization of the country is taking place extremely slowly. A conflict between the form and the content of the economy thus seem to be imminent and inevitable in these villages.