Gill’s investigation of the Spatial Patterns of two neighbouring towns in the Punjab, Goraya and Nurmahal, has tremendous potential for sociologists, geographers and townplanners. His research into the historical backgrounds and development of the two towns, one a manufacturing center and the other a trading town, demonstrates how the caste class, and geographical elements combine together to segregate human beings and the economic activities from one another. With the increasing urbanization of the country books and studies such as Gill’s might most profitably be applied to understand the growth of the towns and to prevent the worst dangers of growing towns.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.S. Gill
Manmohan S. Gill is Reader in the Department of Sociology, Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar. He has also served in the capacity of Reader, Academic Staff College and Programme Coordinator, NSS, in the same university. He has worked as Social Scientist with Operation Research Group, a division of Sarabhai Chemicals Ltd., New Delhi in 1982. Dr. Gill has over 18 years of teaching and research experience. His area of specialization is Rural Sociology and Social Ecology. He has completed three research projects in the subject of untouchability and land relations. He has published numerous papers in the research journals, besides making presentations in various academic forums at national and international levels. He has authored a book Spatial Patterns: A Sociological Analysis. Dr. Gill is life member of Indian Sociological Society and North-West Indian Sociological Association. He is also the Associate Editor of Guru Nanak Journal of Sociology.
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