Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer
Write note on the emergence of National Settlement System in colonial India and discuss the factors contributing to urbanization in post-independence period.
Before the eighteenth century the subcontinent carried regionally self-contained urban systems, each closed around its own hinterland — inland imperial capitals (Delhi, Agra, Bijapur), temple towns (Madurai, Puri), craft-manufacturing centres (Dacca muslin, Murshidabad silk) and caravan marts on the overland routes.
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- The Pre-Colonial Base: Several Systems, Not One
- The Colonial Restructuring into a Single National System
- The Product: Primacy Rather Than Integration
- Drivers of Urbanisation After 1951
- Judgement: A System Measured by an Obsolete Definition
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