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Write short note: Social profile of slums.

  • UPSC 1997
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

A slum is a social order, not merely a housing condition. M. S. A. Rao (Urban Sociology in India, 1974) insisted that Indian urban settlements be read through the caste, kin and regional ties migrants carry in, and Indian field studies bear him out: the slum lane is organised by community of origin long before…

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  • Who lives there: caste, community and region
  • Household and family form
  • Work
  • Gender
  • Networks, association and leadership
  • Conclusion

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