INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR INNOVATIVE RESEARCH IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY FIELD ISSN – 2455-0620 Volume - 2, Issue - 9, Sept - 2016 TRENDS OF URBANISATION IN MANIPUR FROM 1901-2011: A Socio-Economic Analyses. Page 176 TRENDS OF URBANISATION IN MANIPUR FROM 1901-2011: A Socio-Economic Analysis Introduction: The dominant theme of the present paper has been study, the pattern of urban settlements in both at regional level and settlement levels. It also throws light on the historical growth of towns and their functions and the analysis is a temporal-spatial pattern of the urbanisation of Manipur during 1901 to 2011. Thus, author approaches the present theme into five approaches 1)The identification of the pattern of variation growth of urban population, 2)The pattern in degree of urbanism and rural urban ratio, 3)The pattern of variation in number of urban centres, 4) The progress of urbanisation in the state and 5) Their problem and prospects. Pattern of variation growth of urban population: Urbanisation is itself the result of evolution of human civilisation and an urban centre is itself the centre of evolution of civilisation. The study of the origin of urban settlements and their spatial distribution in terms of evolution reveals the entire history of the occupation of the land. As such, land occupancy in different time period has been trace out in the following chronological order, pertaining to the regional history- 1. Pre British period(1591-1890) 2. British period(1891-1947) 3. Post independence period(1947-2011) Pre British Period: Khagemba the elder son of king Mungyamba was took up a number of development programmes for the welfare of the people. He established many educational heads, Improvement and repairing many of the inter- state roads, paths, bridges and water-ways etc, Before Khagemba there was no market or any central places and Dr.N. Chandrashekhar Singh 1 , Nongmaithem Jibanta Singh 2 , M. Kumar Singh 3 1.Associate professor, Geography Department, Standard College Kongba, Imphal-East, Manipur, India. 2.Lecturer in Churchandpur DIET Centre, Churchandpur District, Manipur, 3.Principal In-charge, Standard College, Former H.O.D, Department of Education. Email - chandranong42@gmail.com Abstract: The present paper is the study in the nature on the historical growth of towns and their activities, variation growth in urbanisation, the pattern in the degrees of urbanism, rural-urban ratios, the pattern of variation in number of urban centres, the progress of urbanisation and the problems and prospects of the context. These indicators enunciated is ambitious and raised the present investigation. The scope of this exercise is rather limited. It can be taken as a prologue to the theme based on a perusal of the available literature and a preliminary analysis of the relevant data. The analysis is based on the temporal-spatial pattern of the urbanisation of the study area during 1901-2011 in Manipur. The major view in the study of urban geography has become a necessity and prerequisite in view of growing population and developing market. Thus, the trends of urbanisation are the real mark and index of development so as to ascertain the growth and level of towns as remarked by Smiles. Lambert also stressed, the progress of urbanisation is a cyclical process and involves three important aspects of elements-behaviour, structure and demography. Urbanisation itself is the result of evolution of human civilisation and an urban centre is the centre of evolution of civilisation. The study of the origin, trends of the urban settlements and their spatial distribution in terms evolution and growth reveals the entire history of human settlement in the state. As such, the study period has been traced out in the three chronological orders from pre British period to post independence period of the last census year. Key Words: Pattern, urbanisation, urbanism, rural-urban ratio, temporal-spatial, market, towns, behaviour, structure, demography.