MHI-111 EM 2025 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

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MHI-111: Urbanization in India-2
Course Code: MHI-111
Assignment Code: MHI-111/AST/TMA/January 2025
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
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Why is the study of material or physical aspects of the city alone
inadequate in understanding urban history?
Critically examine various debates pertaining to the rise of towns in the
sultanate period.
Discuss the characteristics of capital cities developed during the 14th-15th
century.
What are the characteristics of Temple Towns in peninsular India?
Discuss
Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words
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Vijayanagara
Port town-Cambay
Industrial cities of the Medieval Deccan
Cities and Cross-cultural perspectives
Section-B
Do you agree that Mughal capital Shahjahanabad was a planned city? Discuss.
Write a note on the relationship between colonialism, Capitalism and
urbanisation during early modern India.
How did the railways alter urban settings?
In what ways did colonial architecture and city planning reflect British political
agenda?
Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words
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Cantonment
New risks and contemporary urbanism
Bombay as a working class city
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Urban governance and Nationalist responses