Abstract

The political socialization process is the through every human being learn the essentials of socio-political life science he or she comes in to the world. Behavioral movement has sensitized the scholars in comparative politics to shift their research area from the static aspects of structural, legal, and historical analysis of the rural local governments to the dynamic aspect of the functions of these institutions. This area has received impetuse specially from scholars who have been oriented in the methodology of the functionalists. India is acknowledged for its local administration through ages. The present local government structure has its roots in Lord Mayo’s strategy of decentralization of 1870, followed by Lord Ripon’s enunciation of local government in 1884; which had heralded a new trend of bringing people to the centrestage in managing their own affairs. Mahatma Gandhi said that “the centre of power is not in Delhi or Calcutta or Bombay or in big cities; it should be distributed among the seven hundred thousand villages of India”. The significance of local government in India has considerably increased in the post-independent India. The present research paper examines the political socialization aspects of the rural local body leaders from Cuddalore district, Tamil Nadu, India.

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