Author : Jyotirmayee Devi
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3668385025
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (683 download)
Book Synopsis Growth of Urban Centres in the Brahmaputra Valley in the Post Independent Period by : Jyotirmayee Devi
Download or read book Growth of Urban Centres in the Brahmaputra Valley in the Post Independent Period written by Jyotirmayee Devi and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2007 in the subject Sociology - Individual, Groups, Society, , language: English, abstract: This text gives a background of the growth of urban centres in Brahmaputra Valley in the period of post independence. The Brahmaputra or Assam valley is the most important geomorphological unit of Assam. It is almost a flat featureless alluvial lowland lying on either side of the Brahmaputra river, extending from the base of Bhutan and Arunachal Himalaya in the northeast to the Indo-Bangladesh border in the west. It is about 725 km long, 80 km wide(average) and area is 58315 sq. km. The valley is characterized by distinct alluvial morphological units, predominance of rice fields, tea gardens, oil resources, very low urbanization, lack of quick transportation system and high density of population.