Synopsis This book attempts a detailed survey of the contributions to urban studies. It rveals the relative importance of various aspects of urbanization taken up in the urban studies in India and abroad. Modern urban growth leads to the formation and accelerated development of more complex system of towns. The urban way of life is extending to more and more regions and creating conditions for the growth of multilateral contacts for radical changes and for higher social mobility. Being a complex process closely connected with the scientific-technological revolution, urbanization exercises a growing influence on all aspects of society’s life. Thus, the study of urbanization requires a comprehensive approach involving many disciplines. We have tried to screen the materials relating to several disciplines involved in urban studies. An exhaustive survey of census and gazetteer publications has also been done. Dr. Prabhash P. Singh (b. 1951) M.A., B.Ed., B. Lib. Sc., Ph.D. is at present working as Assistant Librarian at A.N.S. Institute of Social Studies, Patna. He has worked in one of the reputed projects of the ICSSR – Area Study Bibliography. For sometime he was lecturer in the Training Course for Librarianship conducted by Govt. of Bihar at Patna. Dr. Singh has brought out four mini bibliographies on Women, Migration, Non-economic factors in rural Development, and Non-Alignment. Recently Bihar Hindi Granth Akademy appointed him as a proof supervisor for a book on library science. He was awarded Ph.D. in Political Sociology by Patna University in 1987.