The author's previous studies described that the industrial labor force in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi comprised of migrant labor, mostly under non-regular contracts, from rural areas of Bihar and UP states. On the other hand, industrialization aids to non-elite ordinary people to start up diverse small-scale economic activities in the areas populated by contract workers.
This paper aims to grasp this trend in the form of subaltern urbanization and elucidate its mechanism. The research site of this study was B village in IMT Manesar, one of the largest industrial estates in Haryana state. The subaltern urbanization observed in B village was caused by the following factors. Many contract workers working in the industrial estate are attracted to the low rent and live in nearby villages such as B village, which causes a rapid population increase in these areas. Since workers are also consumers, they demand goods and services for their daily needs. This causes an increase in potential demand with surge in the population. Therefore, the number of shops dealing with various goods and services increases in the village. There are three groups of shop proprietors based on their birthplaces. The first group consists of former industrial workers and new arrivals from their home states of Bihar and UP, causing inter-state migration. The second group comprises people from more distant districts along the highway from B village, which brings the migration within NCR. The third group, the shops set up by villagers, is added, and the various proprietor compositions are brought about. The above mechanism confirmed in B village seems to be as urbanization from the bottom and has generality in this industrial region.