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Discuss the phenomenon of rural-urban continuum with suitable examples.

  • UPSC 2023
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

Between 2001 and 2011 the number of census towns in India rose from 1,362 to 3,894 — settlements the Census counts as urban but which a gram panchayat still governs. Nothing states the rural-urban continuum better: in India the two categories are not opposites but overlapping ends of one gradient, linked by migration, kinship, remittance…

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  • The dichotomy, and why Indian sociology rejected it
  • Suitable examples
  • What it explains, and where it stops
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