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Understanding India's urban frontier : what is behind the emergence of census towns in India ? (English)

This paper presents the results of an investigation of selected census towns in northern India. Census towns are settlements that India's census classifies as urban although they continue to be governed as rural settlements. The 2011 census featured a remarkable increase in the number of census towns, which nearly tripled between 2001 and 2011, from 1,362 to 3,894. This increase contributed to nearly a third (29.5 percent) of the total increase in...
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Mukhopadhyay,Partha; Zerah,Marie-Helene; Samanta,Gopa; Maria,Augustin.

Understanding India's urban frontier : what is behind the emergence of census towns in India ? (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 7923 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/378351482172055283

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