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  2. Urbanization in India - Wikipedia

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    The South Asian region though predominantly rural (accounting for 69.9% rural population as of 2010), has recorded much higher annual growth of urban population. India, the leading country in South Asia has shown an unprecedented increase in the urban population in the last few decades and its urban population has increased about 14 fold from ...

  3. Standard of living in India - Wikipedia

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    For example, on one hand most metropolitan cities and other urban and suburban regions boast world-class medical establishments, luxurious hotels, sports facilities and leisure activities similar to that of Western nations, while there is significant poverty in rural areas of India; where medical care tends to be very basic or unavailable due ...

  4. List of urban agglomerations in India - Wikipedia

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    India's 27.8 percent urban population lives in more than 5,100 towns and over 380 urban agglomerations. [6] In the decade of 1991–2001, migration to major cities caused rapid increase in urban population. [7] [8] The number of Indians living in urban areas has grown by 31.2% between 1991 and 2001. [9] Yet, in 2001, over 70% lived in rural areas.

  5. Demographics of India - Wikipedia

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    Under the Mughal Empire, India experienced a high economic and demographic upsurge, [31] due to Mughal agrarian reforms that intensified agricultural production. [32] 15% of the population lived in urban centres, higher than the percentage of the population in 19th-century British India [33] and contemporary Europe [33] up until the 19th ...

  6. Urban–rural political divide - Wikipedia

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    The United States is the most prominent example of the urban-rural divide, among other Western democracies, [18] [19] with its history dating back to the 19th century, continuing well into the 21st century, and increasing under the presidency of Donald Trump during the 2010s and 2020s, [20] [21] with the 2020 United States presidential election ...

  7. Administrative divisions of India - Wikipedia

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    The administrative divisions of India are subnational administrative units of India; they are composed of a nested hierarchy of administrative divisions.. Indian states and territories frequently use different local titles for the same level of subdivision (e.g., the mandals of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana correspond to tehsils of Uttar Pradesh and other Hindi-speaking states but to talukas of ...

  8. Greater Idaho is a pipe dream, a symptom of a deeper problem ...

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    It’s the idea that you don’t need to build bridges across political divisions; you just need a new map.

  9. Municipal governance in India - Wikipedia

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    It was the 74th amendment to the Constitution of India in 1992 that brought constitutional validity to municipal or local governments. Until amendments were made in respective state municipal legislations as well, municipal authorities were organised on an ultra vires (beyond the authority) basis and the state governments were free to extend or control the functional sphere through executive ...