It was driven both by necessity to support parents, younger
siblings and children, demands for conspicuous consumption items in the
villages, and a shared desire to participate in the modernity of consumerism
and self fashioning (Mills 1999: 1–23). The transformation of the metropolis
into an industrial centre was a process which was built on the backs
of village households, and the rural world was also changed in the process.
City and country were mutually dependent.