The archaeology of ancient Indian cities / Dilip K. Chakrabarti.

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Chakrabarti, Dilip K

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Oxford India paperbacksPublication details: Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: x, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cmISBN:

0195641744 (pbk.)
9780195641745 (pbk.)

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Archaeology of ancient Indian cities [Other title]

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DDC classification:

23 934 CHA 000213

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Table of contents

Contents:

1. Introduction 2. Background and Origin of the Indus Civilization 3. Harappan Settlements 4. Prelude to Early Historic Urban Growth 5. Early Historical Cities 6. Problems and Perspectives

Summary: This book offers a definitive archaeological perspective on the history of early urban growth in India. It does this by looking at both the protohistoric and the early historic periods, coming down to about AD 300 and later. Geographically, it covers all the major areas of the subcontinent. The existing archaeological data have been synthesized to yield a comprehensive picture of the morphology of ancient sites and their place within what is currently known of their settlement perspectives. This book addresses itself to some of the cardinal issues of South Asian archaeology - the origin and decline of the Indus civilization; the issue of its merger in the main flow of India's later cultural development; the archaeological basis of its long chronology; aspects of Indus urbanism; the reasons for the growth of neolithic-chalcolithic inner India; and the patterns and problems of urban growth in the early historic period on the subcontinental scale. In each case the author's concern is with understanding the situation at the grassroots level within an essentially South Asian framework. The hypotheses offered in this book should lead to some major rethinking about the story of archaeological development in the subcontinent.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	930.10954 CHA 000213 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000213

Based on the author's Ph. D. dissertation (University of Calcutta, 1972), titled Early urban centres in India: an archaeological perspective, c. 2500 B.C.-c. A.D. 300.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-292) and index.

1. Introduction
2. Background and Origin of the Indus Civilization
3. Harappan Settlements
4. Prelude to Early Historic Urban Growth
5. Early Historical Cities
6. Problems and Perspectives

This book offers a definitive archaeological perspective on the history of early urban growth in India. It does this by looking at both the protohistoric and the early historic periods, coming down to about AD 300 and later. Geographically, it covers all the major areas of the subcontinent. The existing archaeological data have been synthesized to yield a comprehensive picture of the morphology of ancient sites and their place within what is currently known of their settlement perspectives.
This book addresses itself to some of the cardinal issues of South Asian archaeology - the origin and decline of the Indus civilization; the issue of its merger in the main flow of India's later cultural development; the archaeological basis of its long chronology; aspects of Indus urbanism; the reasons for the growth of neolithic-chalcolithic inner India; and the patterns and problems of urban growth in the early historic period on the subcontinental scale. In each case the author's concern is with understanding the situation at the grassroots level within an essentially South Asian framework. The hypotheses offered in this book should lead to some major rethinking about the story of archaeological development in the subcontinent.

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