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Examine the role of migration in the urbanisation pattern of India.

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  • Settlements

From Ravenstein's laws of migration (1885) — the dominance of the short-distance move and the rural-to-urban current — to Lee's push-pull model (1966), Zelinsky's mobility transition and Todaro's expected-income model (1976), the theory of migration has always been, at bottom, a theory of urbanisation. India is the world's leading laboratory of that connection: with 45.4…

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  • Migration's place in urban growth
  • Types and streams: the shape of Indian mobility
  • Migration and the spatial pattern of cities
  • Socio-economic consequences: contributions and pressures
  • Way Forward
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