Growth of a Small Town: A Sociological Study of Ballia (U.P.)

Main objective in this study is to make a sociological analysis of the trends and factors in the Growth of Ballia town during the period 1951-74. The year 1951 was chosen as the base year because it was in this year that the First Five Year Plan was launched in India. The actual field work was conducted in the year 1974. This explains the significance of the period under study. Ballia town which is chosen as the universe of our study is a class III town with no religious, political, industrial background like such cities as Varanasi, New Delhi, Kanpur, Durgapur and so on. It is a small town. It has grown mainly as an administrative town and has its own indigenous type of growth.