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What is the link between industrialisation and urbanisation? What happens when urbanisation outstrips industrialisation? Answer with reference to India.

  • UPSC 1985
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

India's first cotton mill opened in Bombay in 1854 and its first steel works at Jamshedpur in 1907, yet the country's largest cities grew as colonial ports and administrative capitals, not as factory towns. That mismatch is the Indian answer: the link between industry and the city is real, but here it was weak from…

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  • The link, and why it holds
  • Why the link broke in India
  • When urbanisation outstrips industrialisation
  • Conclusion

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