Author: Rai, S.R.; Grover, S.B.; & Sharma, M.L.
Title: Town Survey Report : Korba [Madhya Pradesh]
Description: Nasik, Government of India Press, (1990). orig. wrappers. xxvii,322pp,, 30x21cm, Includes textual tables, 7pp maps + 36pp photoplates. Series: Census of India 1981, Series 11 - Madhya Pradesh.. 7pp maps, 36pp photoplates. Corner bumps. A spine tear, Good. ¶ Study of a leading industrial city of India (located 110 km from Bilaspur, 891 km from Bhopal), famous as the biggest thermal power generation center of the Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board; the National Thermal Power Corporation & for large-scale production of basic aluminium & its products by Bharat Aluminium Company. 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.. Publisher's colophon at bottom of last page reads: "GMGIPN - S3 - 11 R.G.India /ND / 89- 18-8-90 - 300" [ie: published in an edition of 300 copies]

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Census of India, Urban sociology, Industrialization, South Asia, Demography, Social anthropology, Urban geography, Urbanization, Madhya Pradesh