Urbanism in Silchar: Perspective of Louis Wirth

In general parlance area which is designated as town or city by state machinery have perceived as urban. Urban area is defined in the sense of demography that is a place having considerable size of population, political significance and economic and commercial importance. But there is inevitable need for researcher in understanding urbanism termed by sociologist like Louis Wirth in urban areas. Indian cities vary in terms of size, population and commercial and industrial activities. Urbanism of Delhi, Mumbai or Chennai and other metro cities does not exhibits in other small cities or towns, which is not due to their size but because of characteristic features associated with different cities. Cosmopolitanism is not necessarily an urban feature but manifestation of heterogeneous urban society, globalized urban culture of individualism and integration based on difference and extremely specialized secondary social relationship. The present paper is to look the nature of urbanism, extent of cosmopolitanism in Silchar town of Assam by taking the Louis Wirth theory of urbanism as approach of study. It is a qualitative analysis of the urban society based on theory and observation of the researcher.