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This book is an attempt towards indigenous resource-based economic development in India, with reference to an analysis of economic inequality between urban and rural areas. An attempt is made towards the evolution of a self-reliant, agro-industrial complex comprising agricultural mechanization and rural industrialization. This complex is based on indigenous resources like (a) utilisation of natural resources, (b) mobilization of human resources, and (c) the implementation of land reforms. The book is an analysis of poverty versus polity, as it attempts to define the constraints and imperatives in the task of socio-economic transformation based on evolutionary reformist and revolutionary strategies. Various socio-economic factors and forces analysed in the book are also illustrated with several comprehensive figures, diagrams and flow charts. About the Author Before taking up a contractual assignment as Resident Consultant for one year with the N.P.I.U. for implementing the World Bank Project under the Ministry of HRD, Government of India, Dr. Sures Chandra Jain had worked as Chief General Manager for nearly 20 years at M.P. Laghu Upyog Nigam (an undertaking of the Government of Madhya Pradesh) in Bhopal when he voluntarily retired in 2002. Dr. Jain has also worked for many multinational corporations like I.B.M., Massey-Ferguson, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, and G.T.E. when he was in Canada and USA from 1970 to 1983. He was a visiting Fellow at UNESCO, Paris, France. Dr. Jain obtained the degrees of Doctor of Education (Ph. D.) from Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. and B.I.S. from the University of Waterloo in Canada. Besides several research papers, Dr. Jain has written five books, two Hindi and three English, all of them published by Concept Publishing Company, New Delhi. He is either an author or co author of many government reports which are not meant for general publication.