Synopsis The present book entitled 'Marketing System in a backward economy' focuses the origin and development of markets and their spatial distribution and the typology of market centres. The study reveals the hierarchy and hierarchical orders of market centres and their trade areas. The connectivity and accessibility of market centres is also analysed. The study examines the spatio-temporal relationships, mobility pattern of traders and morphological pattern of markets. It also presents the hierarchical reorganisation of market centres and the suggestations and improvements in the transportation thereof.