Editing Rural sociology (section)

==== India ====
In India, the rise of rural sociology was, in part, due to the country’s gaining of their independence in 1947.<ref name=":3">{{Cite journal |last=Sharma |first=Shamita |date=1992 |title=Social Science Research in India: A Review |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4399211 |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=27 |issue=49/50 |pages=2642–2646 |jstor=4399211 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-03 |title=Independence Day (India) {{!}} History, Date, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Independence-Day-Indian-holiday |access-date=2023-11-05 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref> The government needed rural sociology to aid in its understanding of “the problems of extreme poverty of the people, overpopulation and general under-development of the economy”.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Sharma |first=Shasta |title=Social science Research in India: A Review |publisher=Economic and Political Weekly |year=1992 |pages=2642}}</ref> Studies focused on the changing nature of the role of towns, rural-urban actions since independence, rural change and what might be driving it, demographic research, rural development, and rural economies.<ref name=":3" /> In 1953, A. R. Desai published the first edition of ''Rural Sociology in India''.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |last=Desai |first=A. R. |url=https://handoutset.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Rural-sociology-in-India-Akshay-Ramanlal-Desai-.pdf |title=Rural Sociology in India |publisher=Vora & Co. Publishers |year=1961}}</ref> The foreword of the book underlines the importance of understanding each aspect of society so that the Indian government could create “a uniform line of action for building a better social milieu”.<ref name=":4" /> Due to the popularity of Desai's work and the expansion of the study of rural sociology in India, second and third editions of ''Rural Sociology in India'' were published in 1959 and 1961 to better represent new study foci and methodologies in this emerging field.<ref name=":4" /> Other popular researchers during the mid-20th century include S. C. Dube, M. N. Srinivas, and D. N. Majumdar.<ref name=":5">{{Cite journal |last=Singh |first=Ravinder |date=January 2023 |title=Rural Society and Development in India: Through a Sociological Lens |url=http://www.ijciras.com/PublishedPaper/IJCIRAS1922.pdf |journal=International Journal of Creative and Innovative Research in All Studies |volume=5 |issue=8}}</ref> In India, rural sociological research and policies continued to be connected into the 21st century.<ref name=":5" />