PHYSIO-LOCATIONAL TAXONOMY OF PERIODIC MARKETS IN KARAD TAHSIL OF SATARA DISTRICT (MAHARASTRA)

Location and distribution has always been considered as the fundamental step in all Geographical analysis. Throughout the history of the development of discipline, the study of location and distribution has formed its essential core. Market centers not only perform the functions of service centers, rather they are centers of the diffusion of information for population and habitation. The present study is intends to focus on the locational aspects of the market in relation to the physic of the area. The physio-locational taxonomy refers “A scheme of classification of market location based on Physiographic condition” The present analysis intends to make use of Google Earth image of the study region in order to identify and classify the market centers and their location. In Karad tahsil, totally 13 weekly markets are existed, which are distributed on the basis of socio-physiographic conditions. These locations are classified as foothill side, river side, road side and nodal points in the tahsil