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Cities and Towns have long been identified as nuclei of human civilizations. Even India, which is primarily rural with most of its people living in villages for years, has a glorious history of urban places, (albeit with major breaks in between), which dates back nearly five millennia with their uniquely rich and prolific spatial, socio-cultural and politico-economic dimensions (Ramachandran, 1989). The role of urban centres in the history of mankind has been considered as most profound, varied and diverse, occupying the centre-stage in surfeit of literature, overlapping the fields of sociology, history, anthropology, economics, geography, political science as well as public administration (Bose, 1980; Bose, 1973).
