Urbanization in India
Subtitle: sociological contributions
By: editor, Ranvinder Singh Sandhu ; foreword by Victor S. D'Souza.
Contributors: Sandhu, R. S. 1949-
Series: Themes in Indian sociology -- v. 2
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New Delhi; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Urbanization -- India.; Sociology, Urban -- India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Urbanization: some perspectives; value: Urbanization as a perspective for social and historical analysis in developing societies / Victor S. D'Souza; value: Urbanization and social stratification / A.R. Desai; value: 'Fringe' Society and the folk-urban continuum / M.S.A. Rao; value: Urbanization and some social problems / D. Narain; value: Social stratification: caste and class; value: The emerging patterns of urban social stratification in India / W.S.K. Phillips; value: Receding pollution: intercaste relations in urban Punjab / Satish Saberwal; value: Social class and voluntary associations in urban India / Edwin D. Driver and Aloo E. Driver; value: Neighbourhood and family; value: Industrialization and neighbourhood communities in a Western Indian city: challenge and response / Harish C. Doshi; value: Neighbourhood relations in Indian cities: Delhi / A. Bopegamage; value: Urbanization and disintegration of rural joint family / Sudha Kaldate; value: Slum dwellers/migrants in urban setting; value: Stabilization of immigrants in Indian towns: the case of Bombay / Mary Chatterjee; value: Migration and labour characteristics of slum dwellers in Bombay / Vandana Desai; value: Migration and adaptation: lower caste Tamils in a Delhi resettlement colony / Anand Inbanathan.