Small Towns and Decentralisation in India : Urban Local Bodies in the Making

• Main Author: de Bercegol, Rémi. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New Delhi : Springer India : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Urban geography.; Development economics.; Human geography.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9788132227649
• Physical Description: XXIV, 253 p. 61 illus., 8 illus. in color. online resource.

This book examines the impact that decentralisation reforms, initiated in the early 1990s, have had on small towns in India. It specifically focuses on small towns in Uttar Pradesh, one of the most densely populated and poorest states in India. Although considered home to one of the oldest urban civ...