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Title

Five thousand years of urbanization : the Punjab region / edited by Reeta Grewal.

Publication

New Delhi : Manohar : Distributed in South Asia by Foundation Books, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Grewal, Reeta.
• Institute of Punjab Studies (Chandigarh, India)

Description

262 pages : maps; 22 cm

Summary

Contributed papers presented at a seminar.

Alternative Title

5 thousand years of urbanization

Subjects

• Cities and towns > India > Punjab > Growth > Congresses
• Urbanization > India > Punjab > History > Congresses

Note

• "Institute of Punjab Studies, Chandigarh."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / Reeta Grewal -- Urbanization : some basic issues / G.S. Bhalla -- Urbanism in proto-historic Punjab : significance of craft production / Jaya Menon -- Harappan urbanism in the Sutlej-Yamuna divide / Suraj Bhan -- Taxila in the Mauryan Empire / Kumkum Roy -- Urban centres in the north-west, c. AD 600-1200 / Renu Thakur -- Medieval Lahore : production and trade / K.K. Trivedi -- Medieval Sirhind / Iqbal Husain -- Urbanization in the Mughal province of Lahore, c. 1550-1850 / J.S. Grewal and Veena Sachedeva -- Urban-rural interaction : the upper Bari Doab, c. 1550-1900 / Indu Banga -- Urbanization in colonial Punjab / Reeta Grewal and J.S. Grewal -- Socio-cultural change in Amritsar as reflected in Punjabi fiction / J.S. Rahi -- Urbanization process in the undivided Punjab / Kusum Chopra, Atiya Habeeb Kidwai and Subhash Marcus -- Urbanization in Himachal Pradesh : analysis of patterns and trends, 1901-2001 / Surya Kant -- Social parameters of Punjab urbanization since independence / Gopal Krishan -- Urbanization in Punjab : problems and prospects / J.K. Gupta.

ISBN

817304614X

LCCN

2005320650

OCLC

• ocm60414010
• SCSB-5230516

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries