Human Settlements and Migration
NCERT India People and Economy, in its treatment of settlements and migration, links where people live with why they move. It reviews rural types from clustered to dispersed hamlets and urban ranks from towns to million cities, then defines migration by origin, destination, duration, and motive. It explains push factors such as drought and joblessness and pull factors such as wages and schools, outlines rural to urban streams counted in the census, and weighs remittances against crowding and family separation.
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