In M.S.A. Rao's account of urban impact on villages, which of the following pairs is correctly matched?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Gujarat villages - overseas migrants in African and British towns
Option (1) Madhopur - lands partly acquired for an industrial town — Incorrect. Madhopur is Rao's example of villages whose people go to far-off cities for work. Partial acquisition of land happens to villages around an industrial town such as Bhilai.
Option (2) Bhilai - villages absorbed in metropolitan expansion — Incorrect. Bhilai is an industrial town, Rao's second kind of urban impact. Total absorption of villages belongs to the third kind, the growth of metropolitan cities.
Option (3) Gujarat villages - overseas migrants in African and British towns — Correct. Rao gives villages of Gujarat as the case of overseas emigrants. Many of their people live in African and British towns.
Option (4) Bhilai - migrants leaving families behind in natal villages — Incorrect. Leaving families behind in natal villages marks the first kind, as in Madhopur. Villages near Bhilai instead receive an influx of immigrant workers.
NCERT (2026-27): “Urbanisation in Independent India … “Firstly, there are villages in which a sizeable number of people have sought employment in far-off cities. They live there leaving behind the members of their families in their natal villages. In Madhopur, a village in north central India, 77 out of 298 households have migrants, and a little less than half of all the migrants work in two cities of Bombay and Calcutta. About 75 percent of the total migrants send money regularly, and 83 per cent visit the village from four to five times a year to once in two years... A considerable number of emigrants reside not only in Indian cities but also in overseas towns. For instance, there are many overseas migrants from Gujarat villages living in African and British towns. …” |