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MHI-10: URBANISATION IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-10
Assignment Code: MHI-10/AST/TMA. 2022-23
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. Examine the emergence of new forms of knowledge and their relationship to the city
that has set the modern city distinct from their pre-modern predecessors. 20
2. Discuss the layout and chief characteristics of Mohenjodaro. 20
3. Compare Bhir Mound with Sirkap and Sirsukh cities of the Taxila valley. 20
4. Explain R.S. Sharma’s theory of urban decay. What has been the nature of response to
this theory? 20
5. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
10+10
i) Layout of Harappan cities
ii) Representation of cities in the Arthashastra
iii) Janapadas and Mahajanapadas
iv) Salient features of post-Gupta urbanism
SECTION-B
6. Critically examine the characteristics of the temple towns in the peninsular India. 20
7. Analyse the characteristics of Mughal cities. What was Bernier’s idea of ‘camp-cities’? 20
8. Throw light on the unique aspects of Lucknow as an eighteenth century provincial capital? 20
9. In what ways did the dynamics of race, class and ethnicity shape urban spatial relations and control
over urban space? 20
10. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
10+10
i) Capital cities of Gaur and Pandua
ii) of the port of Goa
iii) Improvement Trusts
iv) Partition and resettlement
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