Author: Grover, S.P.
Title: Town Survey Report : Mani Majra
Description: Chandigarh, Controller of Printing, (1990). orig. boards. 31x21cm, xii,(27),167, Series: Census of India 1981 Series 26 - Chandigarh, Part X - B.. 4 maps, 20pp photoplates. Orig.cloth-backed boards. Binding rubbed & bumped. Good. ¶ Study of Mani Majra Notified Area Committee, a medium-sized town 8km from Chandigarh city. Details topography, history of growth of the town; amenities & services; economic life; ethnic & selected socio-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. Includes 4 maps, 3 single-side pp graphs + 20pp photoplates. Publisher's colophon on rear cover reads: "PRG 13.81 ( Chandigarh) - 300 - 1990 (DSK II)" [ie: published in an edition of 300 copies]

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, Punjab, Haryana, Census of India, Social statistics, Urban geography, Urban sociology, Urbanization, South Asia, Chandigarh