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.