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Towns and Cities of Medieval India - A Brief Survey (Hardcover)
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Towns and Cities of Medieval India - A Brief Survey (Hardcover)
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This much anticipated volume looks at the historical evolution of
towns and cities in medieval India from the early thirteenth to the
late eighteenth century. The selection is based on the availability
of documents. These include the narratives of European travellers
in English, French, Italian, Dutch, and German with the exception
of Ibn Battuta in mid-fourteenth century and also Middle Bengali
literature in case of towns in Bengal. While the coastal towns and
cities have been looked at, the interior ones are also described on
the basis of the writings of later historians and archaeologists.
Care has been taken to explain the rise, growth and the decline of
some towns and cities in which the changing courses of rivers had
played a crucial role. Attempts have been made to search other
factors responsible for such eventualities. The delineation of
physical features within the city has been given due emphasis
including the different quarters of the city and the manners and
customs of the local population with reference to craft production
and commercial links. The morphological differences between the
cities of eastern and those of the western or northern India have
also been described. This is clear from the observations of port
towns described here. All these would show that India was one of
the most urbanized area in the medieval period before advent of the
British.
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