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Discuss Ashok Mitra’s classification of Indian cities.

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Among the many attempts to functionalise the Indian town, Ashok Mitra's classification stands apart for its dual ambition: it wanted not only to name what a town does but to measure how much it specialises in doing it. Built on Census of India 1971 data by a scholar who later served as Registrar General of…

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  • The raw material: nine census categories
  • The tripartite typology and its seven sub-types
  • Measuring specialisation: the ternary-diagram method
  • Empirical findings from the census data
  • Critical evaluation
  • Way Forward
  • …and 1 more sections, with a conclusion
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