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PUNE CITY
SOCIO-ECONOMIC BACKGROUND
Introduction
this city. They planted the name of this city on the map
Pune.
around Pune for a long time. The city has the Ordnance
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Road Cantonments.
2. 2 Brief History^
wadi,^
was only the Kasba Peth, on the bank of Mutha river. The
not ed :
$49 ra. above the sea level and about 100 Kin, from the
western coast.
and the south, by the spurs and uplands that rise to the
other sides except the Mutha valley to the south west the
of Bhamburda. To the south rises the low but sharp cut and
and rainy. The city has about 50 rainy days a year, and
gauge line. The railway line enters the Pune city limit
floods of July 1961 and the second one was the industrial
transportational facilities.
density of population,
population.
villages were mostly cut off from city; but recently the
great extent,
2,5 Population
rates for Pune city were the h ig h est, not only compara
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growth of 'Industry and service'.
2,6 Literacy
below :
Pune city.
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life of Pune city. The year ISIS saw the end of Maratha
established in Pune,
very rapidly during the decades after the second world war.
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p. 7S.
from : fp,
^ V f ^ ■
m 5, p. 267.
8. Ibid.
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12. O p ,c i t ., p. 215.
Vol, I I , p. 162.