Study of tribal or rural development should not suffer from a complacent view in light of socio-economic dominance in planning. Village was accepted as the basic unit of rural life, simply because it was considered as a social entity, self-fulfilling, self-sufficient in all respects, if not entirely whole some. But Bailey, Kathleen Gough and Marian Smith, among others, noted that the village as social isolate does not exist in the sense it existed in the past. A social anthropologist who made studies and pointed out “the easy shift of the dominant castes as guardians of social and ethical code of the village to positions of control over the newly created institutions of Panchayats and Cooperatives”. These studies have helped in pointing out important directions of social dynamics in the villages, and to great extent influenced the thinking of policy makers. Rural development by its very nature has to draw upon the findings of the various social disciplines.