Spatial Distribution of Scheduled Tribe Urban Population: An Analysis of Regional Wise Towns in Erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. Ashok Kumar Lonavath

Volume : III, Issue : VII, July - 2014

Spatial Distribution of Scheduled Tribe Urban Population: An Analysis of Regional Wise Towns in Erstwhile Andhra Pradesh, India

Dr. Ashok Kumar Lonavath

Abstract :

In the metropolitan Indian cities the traditional, social institutions and cultural pattern have begun to change, and new modes of living and working are coming in to vogue. The emergence of urban culture characterized primarily by non animal source of power, higher degree of specialization and higher per capita income, higher level of living, higher literacy rate, lower mortality rates, higher prevalence of functional associations, increasing secularization , greater citizen participation in municipal affairs, wider circulation of mass media and swifter means of transportation (Nagpaul Hans,1996). The developments are modifying considerably the traditional religious beliefs of the caste system, nature of the family and marriage, social satisfaction and other traditional ways of life. The industrialization and urbanization may not always result in the transformation of traditional ways of life but the metropolitan cities do show that the old ways are undergoing considerable changes and new pattern of life, combining both old and new in varying degree are taking shape, emphasizing more or less greater degree of individuality, rationality, adaptive attitude, occupational achievement, formalism and secondary form of relationship. The trends constitute the basis of modernization. The aim of the present study deals with the changing pattern of scheduled Tribe Urban population in erst while Andhra Pradesh from 1961-2011