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Write short note: Mishra’s theoretical stages of Rural-Urban process.

  • UPSC 2013
  • Population and Settlement Geography

R.P. Mishra treats the rural–urban shift not as a dichotomy but as a staged, cumulative process in which a closed village economy acquires successively higher-order functions until an urban-dominated space economy emerges.

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  • Stages I–II: The Closed Village and the Periodic Market
  • Stages III–IV: Central Villages, Service Centres and the Growth Focus
  • Stages V–VI: Interaction, Fringe and Integration
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