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Elaborate urbanism as a way of life in India.

  • UPSC 2019
  • 10 marks
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

In a Mumbai chawl or a Delhi urban village, a migrant's landlord, employer, moneylender and spouse are frequently drawn from his own caste and home district. That is the Indian fact against which Louis Wirth's classic thesis has to be read. Indian urbanism is not the dissolution of primary ties but their reorganisation inside the…

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  • The Western lens
  • How Indian urbanism departs from it
  • Where Wirth still holds
  • Conclusion

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