1. Bhambhri. C.P., Administrators in Changing Society, (Delhi,National Publishing House, 1972), p.2.
2. Pardeep Sachdeva, Urban Local Government and Administration in India, p. 116.
3. http://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/bitstream/10603/98822/10/10_chapter%204.pdf
4. https://www.google.com/search?q=hdmc+shodhganga&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjF6NO8oYLdAhVbWH0KHTSEDsoQBQgjKAA&biw=1024&bih=634
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubli-Dharwad_Municipal_Corporation