Rural Development: Principles, Policies and Management has been revised and repackaged as a comprehensive textbook on Rural Development. and Planning. This book is primarily targeted at graduate and post-graduate students of Rural Development, Agricultural Policy and Planning and Rural Management. The updated content also takes into account training programmes in Rural Development, Rural Economics, Rural. Management, Agricultural Policy and planning. The book focuses on the basic concepts, policy instruments, strategies, policies. and programmes, and the management of rural development.