Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urbanization: some perspectives -- Urbanization as a perspective for social and historical analysis in developing societies / Victor S. D'Souza -- Urbanization and social stratification / A.R. Desai -- 'Fringe' Society and the folk-urban continuum / M.S.A. Rao -- Urbanization and some social problems / D. Narain -- Social stratification: caste and class -- The emerging patterns of urban social stratification in India / W.S.K. Phillips -- Receding pollution: intercaste relations in urban Punjab / Satish Saberwal -- Social class and voluntary associations in urban India / Edwin D. Driver and Aloo E. Driver -- Neighbourhood and family -- Industrialization and neighbourhood communities in a Western Indian city: challenge and response / Harish C. Doshi -- Neighbourhood relations in Indian cities: Delhi / A. Bopegamage -- Urbanization and disintegration of rural joint family / Sudha Kaldate -- Slum dwellers/migrants in urban setting -- Stabilization of immigrants in Indian towns: the case of Bombay / Mary Chatterjee -- Migration and labour characteristics of slum dwellers in Bombay / Vandana Desai -- Migration and adaptation: lower caste Tamils in a Delhi resettlement colony / Anand Inbanathan.