Migration in India: Links to Urbanization, Regional Disparities, and Development Policies (forthcoming book): by Shekhar Mukherji (2010). The book analyzes the patterns of migration in India, both for 1991 and 2001 censuses, separately, and analyzes its various aspects at six levels: (1) All-India, (2) Districts, (3) States, (4) Class I City, (5) Million city, and (6) Metropolitan city. In 1991, about 221 millions migrants moved, and in 2001 their numbers swelled to 327 millions. This book thus deals with webs and flows of one of the largest numbers of migrants in the world — one of the greatest in human history! Much emphasis is laid upon analyzing vast amount of migration and socio-economic data, of both 1991 and 2001 censuses, with statistical techniques of regression analysis, factor analysis, and canonical analysis. The focus is given upon unfolding the general trends of migration in India, and present them through general statements and many illustrations. The book also unfolds the causal links between urbanization and regional disparities over the national space of India. The book greatly emphasized upon the human dimensions of migration problems in India (mostly lacking in conventional studies), and states: “Imagine! There are hundreds of millions of very poor, landless peasants, workers and unemployed, denied of any education, hope and aspirations for betterment, chained to fatalism, submissiveness, and traditionalism, designedly and deliberately pauperized through centuries of exploitation, murderous invasions, colonization and induced underdevelopment, ceaselessly struggling throughout their lives for barest sustenance!. Imagine! Their emaciated faces, moist eyes, and tattered clothes! And, you will begin to hear the roaring sound of their struggle for survival and silent suffering! Perhaps then, you may begin to understand their real situations. No sordid statistics can tell their poignantly sad stories of dismal existence!!”

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Migration in India: Links to Urbanization, Regional Disparities, and Development Policies (forthcoming book): by Shekhar Mukherji (2010). The book analyzes the patterns of migration in India, both for 1991 and 2001 censuses, separately, and analyzes its various aspects at six levels: (1) All-India, (2) Districts, (3) States, (4) Class I City, (5) Million city, and (6) Metropolitan city. In 1991, about 221 millions migrants moved, and in 2001 their numbers swelled to 327 millions. This book thus deals with webs and flows of one of the largest numbers of migrants in the world — one of the greatest in human history! Much emphasis is laid upon analyzing vast amount of migration and socio-economic data, of both 1991 and 2001 censuses, with statistical techniques of regression analysis, factor analysis, and canonical analysis. The focus is given upon unfolding the general trends of migration in India, and present them through general statements and many illustrations. The book also unfolds the causal links between urbanization and regional disparities over the national space of India. The book greatly emphasized upon the human dimensions of migration problems in India (mostly lacking in conventional studies), and states: “Imagine! There are hundreds of millions of very poor, landless peasants, workers and unemployed, denied of any education, hope and aspirations for betterment, chained to fatalism, submissiveness, and traditionalism, designedly and deliberately pauperized through centuries of exploitation, murderous invasions, colonization and induced underdevelopment, ceaselessly struggling throughout their lives for barest sustenance!. Imagine! Their emaciated faces, moist eyes, and tattered clothes! And, you will begin to hear the roaring sound of their struggle for survival and silent suffering! Perhaps then, you may begin to understand their real situations. No sordid statistics can tell their poignantly sad stories of dismal existence!!”

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Migration In India:Links to urbanization, Regional Disparities and Development Policies (forthcoming)

There is a great dearth of meaningful study and research on migration in India. Most studies are merely descriptive, not analytic; neither theoretical, nor integrative; neither unraveling the processes, nor policy-oriented.

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