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Examine the geographical patterns of urbanisation in India.

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  • Settlements

Urbanisation in India is best studied not as a single national curve but as a spatio-temporal mosaic — the joint product of colonial port-city legacies, planned industrialisation, economic liberalisation and demographic mobility working over a highly differentiated physical canvas. The empirical record is stark: urban India rose from 10.8 per cent urban in 1901 to…

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  • I. Temporal phases: a national urban curve with different rhythms
  • 1. Stagnant urbanisation (1901–1951)
  • 2. Slow, migration-led growth (1951–1981)
  • 3. Rapid, differentiated urbanisation (post-1981)
  • II. Spatial patterns: the geography of concentration
  • 1. Inter-state and regional disparity
  • …and 7 more sections, with a conclusion

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