03369nam a22004695i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001400172072001600186072002300202072001500225245010100240250001800341264007200359300006900431336002600500337002600526338003600552347002400588505020100612520155900813650003802372650003302410650002202443650002602465650003202491650002802523700008902551710003402640773002602674776003602700776003602736776003602772856004602808912001402854912001402868999001702882978-981-97-6230-9DE-He21320251030114951.0cr nn 008mamaa241024s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898197623099978-981-97-6230-97 a10.1007/978-981-97-6230-92doi 4aHT111-150 7aHBT2bicssc 7aHIS0540002bisacsh 7aNHT2thema10aHandbook on Urban History of Early Indiah[electronic resource] /cedited by Aloka Parasher Sen.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXLIII, 523 p. 120 illus., 102 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aDEFINING 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.  aThis 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. 0aCities and townsxHistory.968292 0aHistoryxMethodology.973282 0aSociology, Urban.14aUrban History.96829324aTheories of History.98940324aUrban Sociology.9695141 aParasher Sen, Aloka.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9910332 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981976229308iPrinted edition:z978981976231608iPrinted edition:z978981976232340uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-6230-9  aZDB-2-HTY  aZDB-2-SXH  c66844d66844