Duality in Urban Development: Marginalisation of City Tribes

Abstract

The Paper, Duality in Urban Development: Marginalization of city tribes is an analytical assessment of the contextual specific in an urban situation. In the context of a rapidly growing city in the North East India there is a constant unfolding of a society towards urban way of life due to ever expanding migration process in a backward economy. In this process though there is steady growth of economy and high literacy rate in the city, the original inhabitants lag behind the process of urban development .Traditionally they were the land lords and possessed vast amount of land in and around the present city. The expansion of the city meant shedding off their land rights to the migrated people being deprived of substantial monetary benefit. Their status has been studied as a marginal group despite being the land lords .Land has gradually become a major issue of their survival in the city. The study finds that their original traits remain strong. It is an investigation of lack of belongingness in the emerging urban situation and is a modest attempt to focus attention on the intricate problems and facets of development process of cities.