Five Cities of the Gangetic Plain

THE United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, although not the most urbanized of the political units of India, is' perhaps the most interesting to the urban geographer. Only I2.5 per cent of the population were returned as urban in the census of 1941, a little less than the all-India average; but of the 57 towns with Ioo,ooo people or more, 12 were in the United Provinces, and of the I7 with more than 250,000 the United Provinces had five, in both cases the largest number in a single province.2 In smaller towns the position of the United Provinces is not so striking, but there is a remarkable, and on the whole even, spread of middle-sized centers, especially in contrast with the other Gangetic provinces, Bihar and Bengal. This is to some extent a matter of administration. In consequence, much work done in minor centers in Bengal and Bihar is carried out in the United Provinces at the district headquarters, and this greater administrative and legal centralization has fostered the growth of a large number of middling towns-no fewer than 41 between 20,000 and 50,000

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