Fundamentals of Rural Development

Tahir Hussain:- obtained his Ph.D in Population Geography in 1993 from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Since then he has been actively involved in teaching and research at Jamia Millia, followed by various universities abroad and is presently faculty in Adigrath University, Adigrath, Ethiopia. His areas of interest are population, environment and social geography, remote Sensing and GIS applications. He has published extensively in national and international journals. He is the Vice president of Maulana Azad Education Foundation, Ministry of Minority Affairs, New Delhi.

Mary Tahir:- has been associated with teaching and research in various fields of geography. As faculty she has been serving Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi since 1990. Her research areas include social geography, geography of crime, and environmental geography.

Riya Tahir:- is an economist from Himachal University, Shimla and did her internship from Planning commission, New Delhi and worked as research assistant at Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.