No resource and resource process is a static phenomenon of the earth surface. It is a dynamic process whose linkages extend deep into the cultural system of the people connected with exploitation of that resource far beyond the limits of immediate physical, technological and occupational considerations. Therefore, understanding of resource base is more economic view than natural but it has a definite role by resource process on development of human civilization. All resources are derived from natural elements but the resource potential of natural elements is not realized unless the elements are separated from their natural disposition and are converted into raw materials by labor process. This paper, thus, seeks to find out the present context of change of resource base with a historical background of its analysis and how the notions of resource process and resource function have impacted the study of socio-economic transformation with special case study of the tribal family of Basalt quarrying industrial area of Rampurhat-I C.D.Block, Birbhum Distric, West Bengal.
