discuss the special pattern of urban development in contemporary india?
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India is passing through a phase of rapid urbanisation in the contemporary phase of the transition of society. The modern urban centres perform diversified functions in terms of economic, administrative, political, and cultural and so on. Here, it is very difficult to classify the towns and cities in terms of a single activity.
Generally, people classify urban areas on the basis of some prominent socio-economic and political features. For example, people mention that there are historical cities like Delhi, Kolkata, Varanasi, Lucknow, etc. Industrial cities like Ghaziabad, Modinagar, Kanpur, Jamshedpur, Bhilai, etc., religious cities like Mathura, Hardwar, Madurai, Allahabad, etc., cities reputed for film making, like Bombay and Madras, have a special appeal for a villager or a small-town dweller. Sociology discusses the pattern of urbanisation in terms of its demographic, spatial, economic and socio-cultural aspects. While describing the urban places, the Indian census records consistently employ population size to classify the urban area into six classes.