An overview of origin and growth of villages in India

This paper made an attempt to give a bird view of dynamic nature of human being from an historical perspective and also justifies the dynamic nature of human being by various inventions to make his life better. Achievement of sustainability in food production itself is a wonderful chapter in the history of human being. The exhibition of human talent in different dimensions is lies with settled cultivation which assured sustainable food productivity. This piece of writing gives a brief note on origin and growth of rural settlement in India. India is land of villages and rural community is sustained from thousands of years in villages. Series of changes are entering into the Indian villages and ‘self sufficient’ Indian villages are converting into ‘migrating villages’.