The City in Indian History : Urban Demograpy, Society and Politics

Contnets: Preface. In memorium. 1. Urban history in India: possibilities and perspectives/S.C. Misra. 2. Urbanism in early historic India/R.S. Sharma. 3. Social structure and economy of settlements in the central Deccan (200 B.C. A.D.200)/Aloka Parasher. 4. Urban processes in early medieval Tamil Nadu/R. Champakalakshmi. 5. Historical writing on urbanisation in medieval India/J.S. Grewal. 6. Some aspects of urbanisation in medieval India/Satish Chandra. 7. The morphology of a medieval Indian city: A case study of Shahjahanabad/S. Nurul Hasan. 8. Urban economy in Western India in late eighteenth century/G.D. Sharma. 9. Urbanism in South India: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries/Narayani Gupta. 10. Urban atrophy in colonial India: some demographic indicators/Atiya Habeeb Kidwai.

11. Urban morphology under colonial rule/Reeta Grewal. 12. Urban culture in modern India: World of the lower classes/Nita Kumar. 13. Impact of colonial rule on urban life/Kanchanjyoti. 14. The choice of a capital: Lucknow under the British/Kusum Pant-Joshi. 15. Of Rajas and Prajas: leadership in nationalist politics/Ravinder kumar. Select Bibliography.