P.S. Tewari and F. Harry Cummings. L.N. Ram and B. Thakur. India is almost one third urban and will become two thirds so before 2050. It appears that the agricultural civilization and the rural life that went with it is approaching its end.
Urbanization is a dominant socio-spatial force in developing countries like India.
The costs are enormous, as it tears man from his roots and shears him of his sense of belonging. Only a few among the millions who today drift to the large cities make a grade. Others land in slums and squatter settlements and become urban peasants. Our cities grow but the citizens decay at least half of them. So the recent upsurge of urbanization is in line with the urban potential of this country.