Author: Lohadia, S.R.; Singh, Shamsher
Title: Special Survey Report on Selected Towns: Nathdwara
Description: Delhi, Controller of Publications, (1989). orig.boards. 29x22cm, ix, 372 pp, Original cloth-backed boards. Census of India 1971. Series 18 - Rajasthan, part VI -B , 2. 5pp maps, 15pp photo illus.. Corners bumped,minor rubbing & soil. Good +. ¶ Study of a town 50 km from Udaipur; an important Hindu religious center ( seat of the Vallabh Sampradaya or Pushti Marg; a Vaishnavite sect). "The whole activity of the town revolves around the temple of Shri Goverdhan Nathji" (popularly known as Shri Nathji, the principle deity of Vallabh Sampradaya). 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 on rear cover reads: "PRG 19.81 (Raj.) - 300 - 1989 (DSK II)" [ie: published in an edition of 3 00 copies]

Keywords: Sociology of Religion, Rajasthan, Census of India, Social statistics, Social anthropology, Urban geography, Urban sociology, Demography, Population, Nathdwara