Subject(s): City and towns -- Growth -- Theoretical perspectives -- Small cities and contemporary urban theory -- Emerging perspectives on small cities and towns -- Mega cities -- Culture of small cities and towns -- Academic bias against towns -- Limited resourcing options and equity deficits in small cities -- Industrial dispersal and clustering in India -- Financing and access to basic amenities in small and Medium towns under globalized regime -- Case studies from Punjab, Allahabad, Malegaon, Shillong, Port Blair, Meghalaya, Karnataka, Munger -- Urban development -- Deprivation -- segregation -- Communal conflicts -- Ethnic conflict -- Morphological and demographic changes -- Complexity of growth of tura town -- Urban governance -- Urban planning -- Bazaar town