What happened in New Delhi during colonial rule?
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People had to be separated
n the late eighteenth century; Calcutta, Bombay and Madras rose in importance as they became the Presidency cities. These three cities became the centres of British power in different regions of India. Around the same time, many smaller cities declined in importance. Many towns which were important manufacturing centres declined in importance because of a drop in the demand for what they produced. When the flow of trade moved to new centre, old trading centres and ports could not survive.
When the local rulers were defeated by the British, many earlier centres of regional power collapsed and new centres of administration emerged. This process is usually called de-urbanisation. Machlipatnam, Surat and Seringapatam were some of the cities which were deurbanized during the nineteenth century. By the early twentieth century, only 11 per cent of Indians were living in cities.