Rural Studies- Is the study of rural life and human relationships in the rural environment. The study of rural life is the study of rural population, rural social organization and the social processes comparative in a rural society. AR Desai-Rural studies/sociology- the science of rural society – the science of laws of the development of rural society-has the primary objective to make scientific, systematic and comprehensive study of rural social organization, of its structure, function and the objective tendencies of development and on the basis of such studies to discover the laws of its development