Methodological issues in studying Urban influence

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.