Acceleration of urbanization is deeply affecting the transformation of Indian society. One-fourth of the country's population is urban. Mumbai (Bombay) is currently the sixth largest urban area in the world of 18 million, and Kolkata (Calcutta) has 13 million in the fourteenth place. In recent years, due to rural-urban migration, the rates of small towns and villages in India's largest cities have doubled.
In the largest cities, there is a decrease in densely populated, surrounded, noisy, polluted, and clean water, electricity, sanitation and decent housing. Slam luxury apartments often raise cheeks by building, walks on the streets, cattle are refused, and vehicles with climbing diesel smoke are climbing on the roads.
Traditional caste hierarchy is weak in cities, but caste relationships are important, because often rare jobs are obtained through caste partners, relatives and friends. The invincible and firmly characterized poor urban workers to support themselves through a group of tasks as entrepreneurs, small businessmen and men's laborers.
Rising middle class ranks are increasingly clear in cities where academic and employment opportunities benefit them. For them, relationships for all of the city are confirmed through neighborhood solidarity, voluntary associations, and festival festivals.
Cities are, of course, great centers of commerce, education, science, politics and government on which the functioning of the nation depends. India's film industry is the world's largest, concentrated in Mumbai and Chennai, and popular television stations are growing. These bring a vivid picture of urban life style to the residents of small towns and villagers all over the country, which affect millions of aspirations.
Social revolution also supports the support of urban telescopes, such as shaping the movement of rising women. Under the leadership of large-scale educated urban women, movement wants justice on various issues, especially focusing on the growing issue of the killings related to the dowry of young wives, which is a number of thousands of annually. Under the leadership of Allahha Bhatt, the tremendous financial needs of poor women workers are being addressed by organizations like Self-employed Women's Association (SEWA) of Ahmedabad.
