Abstract :
The north east region covers an area of about 2,62,239 sq.km. It is about 7.9 percent of Indias total area. They had a population of around 45.5 million in 2011, which was about 3.77 percent of Indias total population. Census of India 1991, 2001 and 2011 data were analysed with different indices to know the level, growth and distribution of urban population and towns. The level of urbanization increases from one census to another census in every state. Towns were unevenly distributed in the region. Most of the towns were small towns. Only few districts in the region attained urbanization level of 50 percent and above. Urbanization in the region is different from the mainland India. The urban centres are the administrative centres. The market penetration and social change has been very limited in the urban areas. N. Pautunthang "Urbanization in North East India 1991 2011" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-6 , October 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18631.pdf Paper URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/social-science/18631/urbanization-in-north-east-india-1991-:--2011/n-pautunthang
Keyword :
Tempo of urbanization, exponential growth, median inhabitant, rank size rule, primacy index.