Author: Saxena, S.C.; Prasad, Rajendra & Bhargava, V.K.
Title: Town Survey Report Dhanbad
Description: Delhi, Controller of Publications, (1988). origboards. 29x22cm, 18,289,(20)pp, Original cloth-backed boards.Includes 20pp photo illus. + 2 large folding maps. 20pp photo illus, 2 maps. Corner bumps,rear cover soiled & bumped,rubbed,Good ¶ Study of an important industrial center of Bihar state (Jharia coal mines; hard coke bhattas; rolling mills, brick kilns) located 291 km from Patna. Details topography; history of growth of the town; amenities & services; economic life; ethnic & selected social-demographic characteristics; migration & settlement of families; neighbourhood pattern; family life; housing & material culture; slums,blighted & other areas of sub-standard living conditions; organization of power & prestige; leisure & recreation; religion, crime, etc. Census of India 1981, Series 4 - Bihar, Part X - B. Publisher's colophon an rear cover reads; "PRG - 26.8l (Bihar) - 300 - 1988(DSK II)" [ie: published in an edition of 300 copies]

Keywords: Bihar, Census of India, Urban sociology, Industrialization, Social anthropology, Social geography, Demography, Population, Urbanization, Dhanbad