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Examine the M. K. Jain’s classification of Indian cities.

  • 15 marks
  • Settlements

Functional classification — the attempt to label towns by what they do rather than merely by how big they are — is the oldest branch of urban geography, running from Aurousseau's functional towns and Chauncy Harris's classical typology (1943) to Nelson's statistical deviation method (1955). Indian scholars inherited the preoccupation and reworked it for a…

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  • The basis of the classification
  • The three-fold functional typology
  • 1. Mono-functional towns
  • 2. Bi-functional towns
  • 3. Multi-functional towns
  • Functional sub-groups for sensitivity
  • …and 6 more sections, with a conclusion

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