MHI 10
URBANISATION IN INDIA
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Assignment 2020-21
Total Marks: 100
Note: Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections
'A' and 'B'. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in
about 500 words each. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION-A
1. What is urban history? Write briefly on the historiograpy of urbanism.
2. Discuss the main features of the city of Mohenjodaro.
3. Critically examine the depiction of the cities in the ancient Indian texts.
4. What were the markers of an urban centre in the early medieval period? Elaborate your argument on the basis of Tallanandpur, Siyadoni and Venugrama.
5. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
i) Lefebvre’s notion of space
ii) Perception of forests in the early Indian literature
iii) Gaur and Pandua
iv) Temple town of Srirangam
SECTION-B
6. Give a comparative analysis of the spatial pattern of Ajmer-Banaras-Pandharpur.
7. Give a brief account of the cities in the Kachchh-Gujarat region during the seventeentheighteenth century.
8. Describe the emergence of canal colonies. What was its impact? How did it alter the urban spaces?
9. In what ways did the colonial Indian cities embody the visible signs and symbols of modernity?
10. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
i) Patrimonial-bureaucratic cities of the Mughal empire
ii) Industrial cities of the Deccan in the medieval period
iii) Goa: a Portuguese city
iv) Presidency towns
