The author examines migration patterns in India using data from the 1961, 1971, and 1981 censuses. Among the developments noted is "the declining rate of migration over time in both rural and urban areas--more sharply for males than for females....In an attempt to look at the population mobility in the context of development dynamics, this paper considers the interstate variations in the incidence of migrants in general and interstate migrants in particular. The growing immobility is also examined in relation to the process of accentuation of regional imbalances."