With over a century of sociological exploration of Indian villages, there exists a body of literature which continues to offer some image or the other of Indian villages. These studies carry a series of images of Indian society which were part of European experience of India. The peculiarity of these descriptions rests in the association between Hindu religion, caste system and Indian villages. Village studies develop a series of inferences sociologically based on an aforementioned cluster of ideas. Today, on the one hand there are sociological descriptions of Indian villages which have become common sense as some kind of scientific truths and on the other hand these descriptions seem to be full of anomalies, and they do not adequately capture the sociological dynamics of Indian villages. This study would therefore focus on building a critique of village studies in Sociology and developing alternative framework to understand villages by investing intellectual energy on developing village mapping tools. Eventually, if possible, the study intends to conceptualize a decision support system to intervene in the development of villages.