Parasher Sen, Aloka. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt SpringerLink (Online service) text si 2024 1st ed. 2024. monographic eng

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access XLIII, 523 p. 120 illus., 102 illus. in color. online resource. This handbook addresses issues around urban growth in early India. It provides theoretical and empirical insights from the perspective of the different regions of the subcontinent using various sources. The book chapters discuss how early urban forms evolved, transformed, and survived on the subcontinent, beginning with the third millennium BCE. This volume also looks at how urban space gradually emerged in borderland areas of the subcontinent and hill areas, which throw up relevant issues and questions of how we need to review elements of what we define as 'urban'. It includes chapters on both the early historic and early medieval periods. The book provides a comprehensive view of early India's urban history, insights into metallic money and cities, the origin of cities and waterways, geospatial and remote sensing techniques to reflect on the emergence of historic settlements, and so on. The contributors have presented the dialectical relationship between the city and the country in their chapters. The book covers themes such as the Indus Valley civilization, the rise of cities in the Ganges valley, the cultural setting of the multi-ethnic and multi-lingual Kushan cities, the dynamic of the growth of cities in the ancient Tamilakam, theories of urbanization, archaeological and epigraphic material reflecting on the first cities in different regions of the subcontinent, etc. It is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and scholars in history, architecture, and archaeology, as well as scholars working on Indic studies. DEFINING THE URBAN -- PERCEPTIONS OF THE CITY AND COUNTRY -- THE EARLY HISTORIC PROCESSES OF URBANIZATION -- DIFFERENTIATING SETTLEMENTS AND THE URBAN -- URBAN GROWTH PATTERNS IN BORDERLAND AREAS. edited by Aloka Parasher Sen. Cities and towns History History Methodology Sociology, Urban Urban History Theories of History Urban Sociology HT111-150 9789819762309 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6230-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6230-9 241024 20251030114951.0 978-981-97-6230-9