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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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