1) Life Expectancy is higher in India than in China, True or False
2) Share of Municipal revenue as a proportion of state and Central Revenue is higher in China than in India.
True or False
3) These three Indian cities have their origins in the colonial period
a) Kanpur, Guwahati and Sylhet
b) Srinagar, Chandigarh and Surat
c) Bombay, Calcutta and Madras
d) Thane, Patna and Jaipur
4) American philanthropic foundation that helped with the first metropolitan plan of Calcutta
a) Rockefeller Foundation
b) Ford Foundation
c) Gates Foundation
d) None of the above
5) This city is a major financial centre in India
a) Mumbai
b) Chennai
c) Ahmedabad
d) Delhi
6) India`s cities are classified on the basis of the following criteria
a) the state government grants municipal status and satisfies certain economic and demographic criteria
b) the state government grants municipal status
c) the central government grants municipal status
d) the cities satisfy certain economic and demographic criteria for the census
7) Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Maharashtra and West Bengal, have lower urbanisation levels than the national average
True or False
8) The Lewis model applies to the following places
a) India and China
b) India and countries in Africa
c) Thailand and Japan
d) None of the above
9) These two Indian cities are well known for their Information technology industries
a) Bangalore and Hyderabad
b) Calcutta and Delhi
c) Chandigarh and Amritsar
d) None of the above
10) China has better per capita water access in urban areas than India
True or False
Essay Questions: Answer both questions. Ten marks each for a total of 20 marks
- The migrant experience in the Mumbai context reveals the precarious nature of the existence of workers in the informal sector. Using interview data from the Boo book, provide at least three examples from India’s performance on various social indicators (literacy, basic health care) on how the country’s development policies have actually inhibited social and economic mobility for the urban poor in Mumbai?
- China’s path to economic progress has been informed by the Lewis model and its management of urban migrants through the hukou system. Please highlight the major theoretical points of Lewis’s understanding of the migration process in respect to how these apply to Chinese urbanization? In what way does the hukou system complement Lewis’s model in explaining Chinese urbanization?
Short Answer questions: Answer both of the following questions (15 marks. 7.5 marks per question). One and a half page for each question
1) Urban informality has been a characteristic of development in both Indian and Chinese cities. Given that urban informality is a bigger problem in terms of how it affects people’s welfare in India than China, present five broad comparisons on how urban informality is tackled at the policy level in both countries?
2) Solomon Benjamin has used the term “occupancy urbanism” to describe the new politics and political economy of the large Indian metropolitan city. What are the three main arguments in his approach to highlight the distinctiveness of the Indian urban context in comparison to cities in other countries?