Urbanization during the Last Nizam 1911 1948 A Study of Warangal Suba

Abstract

Although urbanization is a necessary condition for modernization, the kind of urbanization taking place in developing countries is marked by the growth of a few large cities and Metropolitan centres. Urbanization may be defined as a process by which villages turn into towns and towns turn into cities. Urbanization in the demographic sense is an increase in the proportion of the urban population to the total population, over a period of time. The process of urbanization is a continuous one, which is not merely a concomitant of industrialization but a concomitant of the whole gamut of factors underlying the process of economic growth and social change. The development of urbanization in India has been through a prolonged and slow process of the progress of civilization and therefore, it may be called a Cultural Process . Later on, when various dynasties and kingdoms were going through the process of establishment and downfall, development of cities had taken place. Urbanization during such a period may be called a Political Process . Lastly in modern times urbanization was mostly associated with industrialization and economic development and accordingly it may be called an economic process. newline