MHI-110 EM 2025-26 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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Assignment
MHI-110: Urbanization in India -1
Course Code: MHI-110
Assignment Code: MHI-110/AST/TMA/
July 2025- January 2026

SECTION-A

1 Discuss the significance of ‘creation of surplus’ in the evolution of urban settlements.

2 Examine the character of internal morphology of Harappan towns.

3 Write a note on the depiction of cities in Tripitakas and Dharmasutra.

4 Discuss the geopolitical location of Taxila and examine its significance in the emergence of Taxila as an urban Centre.

5 Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:

i Patilputra

ii Mathura

iii The subsistence economy

iv Harappan burial practices

v Mohenjodaro

SECTION-B

6 Examine the characteristic features of early historical urban centres in Deccan.

7 Discuss the architectural features of Brahmanical structures found at Nagarjunkonda.

8 Discuss the salient features of post Gupta urbanism in north India.

9 Highlight the role of trade in the emergence of Pratishthan as an urban centre.

10 Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:

i Sisupalgarh

ii Brahmanabad/Al-Mansurah

iii Kannauj

iv Puhar