دیہی معاشیات
A formal compound noun phrase of Indic and Arabic origin that denotes rural economics, the specialized and the interdisciplinary branch of the economic science that is concerned with the systematic study, the analysis, and the understanding of the economic activities, the economic structures, the economic institutions, the economic problems, and the economic development of the rural areas, the villages, the countryside, and the agrarian and the non-agrarian sectors of the economy that are located outside of the urban and the metropolitan centers, and that are predominantly, though not exclusively, dependent upon the agriculture, the animal husbandry, the forestry, the fisheries, the handicrafts, the small-scale and the cottage industries, and the various forms of the informal and the subsistence economic activities. The phrase دیہی معاشیات is composed of the adjective دیہی, dehi, meaning rural, pertaining to the village, the countryside, or the agrarian and the non-urban landscape, a word of the ancient and the venerable Indic and the Sanskrit lineage, and the noun معاشیات, muashiyat, meaning economics, the science of the economy, the systematic study of the production, the distribution, the exchange, and the consumption of the goods and the services, a word of the modern and the Arabic-derived coinage that has become the standard term for the discipline of the economics in the Urdu language. The دیہی معاشیات thus encompasses the entire and the vast field of the economic inquiry that is focused upon the lives, the livelihoods, the resources, the markets, the institutions, the policies, and the futures of the rural populations, who constitute the majority of the people in the South Asian subcontinent and in the much of the developing world, and who are the custodians of the land, the water, the biodiversity, the traditional knowledge, and the cultural heritage that are the foundations of the human civilization. In the academic, the policy, the developmental, and the public discourse of the Urdu-speaking world, دیہی معاشیات is a term of the immense and the urgent significance, a term that addresses some of the most pressing and the most intractable challenges of the contemporary era, including the rural poverty, the agrarian distress, the food security, the farmers' suicides, the rural-urban migration, the indebtedness, the land reforms, the water scarcity, the climate change, the rural unemployment, the agricultural markets, the rural credit, the rural infrastructure, the rural education and the health, the gender and the social inequality, and the sustainable and the inclusive rural development.