Urbanization through Ages: Shades in Indian History edited by Sanjay Subodh and Ajisha C.
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- EDITORS : Sanjay Subodh and Ajisha C.
- HB ISBN : 978-93-7033-865-4
- Year : 2025
- Extent : 286
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Urbanization and its wide-ranging complexities continue to engage the critical attention of historians and researchers. This volume is a collection of scholarly essays that explore and contextualize the evolution of Indian urbanity across various temporal and spatial frameworks. The essays delve into the challenges and significance of urban spaces in India, offering fresh perspectives and interpretations.
Urbanization Through Ages: Shades in Indian History addresses themes such as the roles of cities as capitals reflecting the emotions of heterogenous populations; insights from the remnants of old fort cities; impact of modernity on urban identity; detailed studies of medieval buildings and monuments, analysis of technological application in monuments through medieval archaeology; and the dynamics of medieval urban settlements
By tracing the transformation of city spaces through facts and analysis, interpretations and new insights, this collection will enrich the ambit of research being done on Indian history. Additionally, the volume would be also of interest for a general reader who is interested in tracing urbanity in Indian history, apart from the scholars and students of history.
Contents
Preface
1. Tracing the Technological Patterns in the Forgotten City of Bidar by Ajisha C. and Sanjay Subodh
2. Reservoir or ‘Tank’-watered Landscape of Peninsular India, Seventeenth to Early-Nineteenth Centuries by Ishrat Alam
3. Revisiting Allahabad: Mapping Nostalgia and History by Lalit Joshi
4. All Roads Lead to Lhasa: Where Tawang and Buryatia Meet by M.N. Rajesh
5. The Changing Faces and Fortunes of Dhaka: Water, Land, and People by Perween Hasan
6. The Fort City of Śenji (Gingee) in Medieval Times by Radhika Seshan
7. Interface of History and Fiction in Urban Legends: Told and Untold Stories of Hyderabad by Sajjad Shahid
8. Qutb Shahi Haidarabad’s Glorious Infrastructure: Where Has It Disappeared? by Salma Ahmed Farooqui
9. Urban Houses and Buildings in Mughal India by Shireen Moosvi
10. The Mughal Capital as Ceremonial Centre: Fathpur Sikri, Agra, and Shahjahanabad in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Stephen P. Blake
11. Celebrating Cities: Writing about Urban Life in Indo-Persianate Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in India by Urvi Mukhopadhyay
12. Modern Planning: The Case of Colonial Calcutta by Partho Datta
List of Editors and Contributors
Index
The Editors
Sanjay Subodh teaches history at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. He earned his academic degrees from Panjab University, Chandigarh and completed his doctoral dissertation on Aligarh Historiography. Over the past several years, his research has focussed on medieval monuments, incorporating them into the broader study of medieval science and technology. His current research interests include medieval archaeology and the history of science and technology.
Ajisha C. is a research scholar at the Department of History, University of Hyderabad. Her area of specialization is Ancient and Early Medieval South India, with research interests in socio-religious and cultural history.