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Explain any three features of semi-clustered rural settlements of India.

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Features:

(i) Semi-clustered settlements may result from tendency of clustering in a restricted area of dispersed settlement.

(ii) Semi-clustered settlements results from fragmentation of a large compact village.

(iii) One or more sections of the village society is forced to live little away from the main village.

(iv) The dominant community occupies the central part of the main village.

(v) People of lower strata of society and menial workers settle on the outer planks of the village.

(vi) Such settlements are widespread in Gujarat plain and some parts of Rajasthan.