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Analyse the application of the primate city concept in India.

  • 15 marks
  • Settlement Geography

Mark Jefferson's law of the primate city (1939) holds that a nation's leading city is always disproportionately large — conventionally more than twice the second — and exceptionally expressive of national capacity and feeling. Applied to India the concept yields one examinable result: at the national scale India is not a primate urban system, and…

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  • Jefferson's Law and How Primacy Is Measured
  • India at the National Level: Not a Primate System
  • Why the National Pattern Took This Shape
  • Primacy as a State-Level Phenomenon
  • States With Strong Primacy
  • States With a Flat, Distributed Pattern
  • …and 2 more sections, with a conclusion

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