Town Planning in Ancient India

Contents: 1. Introductory. 2.The origin and growth of Indian cities. 3.Preliminary to city-foundation: survey of the city. 4. On boundaries and approaches. 5. Streets and their planning. 6. Site-planning and folk-planning. 7. Improvement and expansion of towns. 8. The village. 9. Of buildings and building bye-laws. 10. Of centres and enclosed places. 11. Individuality of indo-Aryan towns. 12. City as the expression of civic life-interpretation of civic architecture cultural and social-political. Appendices: i. Some noted ancient Indian towns. ii.  Camps. iii.  Distribution of city-gates. Bibliography. Index.

“Though India continues to live in its five lac villages but towns have always been an integral part of this great country. Cities like Banaras have always been there to flaunt Indian planning and architecture. Even Chanakya talked about cities and towns. How the cities were created and managed is the crux of this book. Though it sounds a technical book but it is equally palatable for a common reader.” (jacket)