Abstract: This study has its ethnographic base in one village of Fapor Union under Bogra District in the northern part of Bangladesh. A renowned Indian Anthropologist R.K. Mukherjee previously studied the village during 1942-1945. The village under study, Silimpur has features of development in terms of available government institutions, facilities and literacy of the people. The researchers have conducted an intensive field work by living in the village about 6 months from October 2008 to February 2009. This monograph examines the changing development pattern in rural Bangladesh by particularly examining the changing patterns of traditional life.