Growth of Urbanisation in Punjab during Colonial period (1849- 1947)

Abstract

Urbanisation is the changing attitude of people towards several aspects of their life by which they were approachable to the modern facilities of livelihood. It comprises higher education, better job, superior future prospective and higher quality of life and an easy approach to technological development. It is said that urbanization is defined as the people of different communities changed their work from agriculture to trade, manufacture or associated interests1. Anderson states urbanisation as bipolar course, which not only involves demographical change from villages to cities and occupational changes from agriculture to non-agriculture stream but it involves change in attitude, beliefs, values and behaviour of the people. So it involves the migration of population, changes in occupation and changes in the uses of land. Economic growth is one of the important factors of urbanisation that facilitates the easy flow of goods from local to national or international markets and this linked with urbanisation in global context. Politico–administrative and religion are also important factors because the capitals and important administrative centres as well as the famous religious places were the most populous centre which facilitates urbanisation2.