Abstract
The interaction of rural and urban settlements with each other is vital for the sustenance of both. While urban areas are advantageously placed, the development and growth of rural areas hinges on its effective interaction with urban. The study of this process has been widely taken up by geographers. However such studies are based on voluminous sets of data. The present study making methodological variation opens the way to undertake such studies on a country-wide scale. Further, the study focuses on analysis of characteristics of city vis-à-vis their rural peripheries in the census year 2001, a decade after the implementation of New Economic Policy of 1991 so as to unravel the growth equation between the two after a major policy shift. Overall, the results do not show break in the population attributes from city to villages.
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Expansion diffusion is always of contagious type and vice versa. There can be hierarchical/leap-frogging and relocation diffusion working simultaneously over space and society. See Abler et al. (1971).
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Even in the absence of distinct urban land uses in the villages, the existence of influence simply qualifies that rural area to be treated as part of fringe. The influence is seen on crops grown, animal husbandry (meant for the city) and employment pattern (commuting to the city). See Ramachandran (1989).
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Peripheral rural area should not be treated separately from fringe area. As mentioned by the author the peripheral rural areas are not completely rural and interspersed with urban settlements. The existence of urban settlements is in fact a result of leap frog urban development due to influence of larger nearby urban area. Such pockets of urban area together with their zone of influence show that the rural area is under urban influence directly or indirectly.
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As per provisional results of Census 2011 population of the nearest big cities is as follows—Asansol 1,243,008 persons; Pune 5,049,968 persons, Tumkur 305,821 persons; Vadodara 1,817,191 persons and Kanpur 2,920,067 persons.
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In Karnataka there is only one million + city and that is Bangalore.
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Proportion of Scheduled Tribes is computed for Mumbai and its rural influence zone.
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Since in workers we have considered only main workers and its constituents the word main is not used in Tables and the text that follows.
Abbreviations
- NCAER:
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National Council for Applied Economic Research
- HDI:
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Human Development Index
- DMA:
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Delhi Metropolitan Area
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Tewari, S., Ramachandran, H. (2017). Methodological Issues in Studying Urban Influence. In: Sharma, P., Rajput, S. (eds) Sustainable Smart Cities in India. The Urban Book Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47145-7_3
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