Nature of the urban in the context of developing nations required special attention.

In India, the majority of its people are involved in service and small industry, making this very different from the heavy-industry based

cities of the West which evolved under very different conditions.

Puzzling question:

Is rural / urban a valid differentiation in the Indian context?

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Do we need to rely on a neologism such as rururban?

First, we will trace the origin and development of the city in history in order to show the history of the city prior to the advent of industrial capitalism.

Though just like the discipline of sociology, modern cities also arose in the nineteenth century.