In this article we will discuss about the nature of urbanization in India. India is not an exception to the world-wide trend of mass exodus of people from rural areas and their settlement in urban centres. In India the rural-urban migration began during the thirties of the twentieth century. The pace of such migration increased manifold during the post-independence period. [...]
Most of the world has been rural most of the time. Even today the percentage of the world's population that live in cities is indeed very small. What are the characteristics of urban communities? In almost all the countries of the world, urban communities are distinguished from rural ones on the basis of population. Thus, communities containing population of 2000, [...]
The following points highlight the three important types of societies. The types are: 1. Tribal Society 2. Agrarian Society 3. Industrial Society 4. Post-Industrial Society. Type # 1. Tribal Society: The leaders of Indian tribes met at a conference in Shillong in 1962 and defined a tribe as "an indigenous homogeneous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, [...]