OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALISATION OF LABOUR FORCE IN CLASS ONE CITIES OF INDIA.

The economic functions of towns have traditionally attracted the attention of geographers, economists, and urban development experts. Though several studies highlight the functions of towns in India, Asok Mitra's functional classification of Indian towns of Census 1961 is a pioneering one. Since the 2011 data on census industrial categories of towns is released recently, it will be interesting to explore the occupational characteristics of Indian towns and changes therein over time. In this background, the present paper based on the census of India 2011 data of workers engaged in different census industrial categories, attempts to classify cities on the basis of occupational specialisation, compare the city type with the previous classifications, and prepare a list of specialised cities along with their functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]