The Technological Transformation of Rural India (Paperback)

The economic development of developing countries is hindered, in no small measure, by their technological backwardness and their lack of indigenous technological capabilities to master the absorption of new technologies. Despite the efforts made in recent years to study the technological transformation of developing countries in the process of their industrialization and growth, very little, if any, evidence exists of the nature and extent of the technological transformation of rural areas, which are generally bypassed by the advances of science and technology.