With the triumphant rise of the new information order and knowledge economy, of smart cities and tech-enabled rapid industrial production, of heavy engineering and urban infrastructure, defining our understanding of the present, we often lose sight of the fact that about 70% of India’s population still depends on agriculture and allied occupations for their livelihood; that despite deepening urban- rural linkages owing to migration, a majority of Indians still reside in the rural areas. While scholarship from various social science disciplines has rightly questioned certain ahistorical, stereotypical assumptions that have traditionally informed the study of Indian society, the fact remains that​‘village India,’ howsoever conceived, continues to be a key unit of India’s social and spatial constitution. Not only this, but it is also the canvas on which the changes ushered in by modernity, especially the currently unfolding moment of neoliberal globalization, has been most keenly registered, in terms of changing labour practices, occupational patterns, caste and gender relations, population flows, climate change, etc. This course in the Social Science major curriculum focuses on agrarian India and draws students into engaging with the aforementioned issues.