Abstract
from one city to other, the paper examines the nature of traditional Urban
administrative centers on the one hand and the factors, forces and processes
working behind the shift of Urban-Administrative centers on the other hand.. For,
exploring the patterns of the development of colonial system of irrigation,
settlement and communication/transportation as key factors in the emergence of
new Urban centers, it analysis how and why administrative centers were shifted to
these new urban centers. The paper also explores the continuity of these colonial
patterns of developments and shift of Urban-administrative centrality in
postmodern, postcolonial politics administration of a nation state. For, The paper
revolves around the theme that colonial paradigm and patterns of development are
intransient and even post-colonial patterns of politics of urban-administrative
centres is following the same paradigm. For, the paper focuses on mid-nineteenth
century urban-administrative configuration of Sara-i-Sidho Tehsil of Multan
district of 1849 and examines that how this Tehsil headquarter was later replaced
with Kabirwala and how Khanewal district emerge out of these patterns of
developments.
Muhammad Shafique, Lubna Kanwal. (2016) British Paradigm of Urban Administrative Centrality: Intransient Continuity in the Postcolonial State, Journal of the Research Society of Pakistan, Volume 53, Issue 2.
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