Urbanisation and Urban Policies in India: Trends, Patterns and Emerging Perspectives

Ram B. Bhagat is former Professor and Head, Department of Migration and Urban Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He has also served as Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Reader (Associate Professor), Department of Geography, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana (India). Professor Bhagat has been teaching and doing research on population, migration and urbanisation, ethnicity and politics, citizenship and public policies over three decades. As a professional of migration and urban studies, he has participated and contributed in various international and national forums of governmental and non-governmental organisations including various UN bodies namely UNESCO, UNICEF, IOM, ILO, and Population Division, DESA/UN, apart from delivering lectures in India and abroad.

Mohammad Izhar Hassan is former Professor of Geography at Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana (India). After obtaining Ph.D. from JNU, New Delhi, he began his academic career in the year 1991. His area of interest is population studies in geography. More than two dozen research scholars have obtained their Ph.D./ M.Phil. degrees under his supervision. He has also served as Professor of Geography at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack (Odisha) during 2014-17.