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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

Write short note: Urban neighbourhoods.

  • UPSC 1996
  • Industrialization and Urbanisation in India

The Indian city is best read at the scale of the mohalla, the chawl and the basti rather than the municipal ward. M. N. Srinivas noted that most Indian towns have an old "core" of settled residents arranged by caste, religion and language, with migrants on the fringe — the neighbourhood is where the city's…

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  • Neighbourhood as a sociological unit
  • Indian types
  • Solidarity
  • Segregation
  • Decline of neighbourliness
  • Conclusion

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