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Give your opinion on the urban development in India during the Mughal times

  • UPSC 2005
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

Mughal India experienced what has been called a "veritable golden age of urbanization" — yet my assessment is that this urban growth was real and substantial without being autonomous, resting throughout on the political stability and revenue machinery of the empire rather than on independent commercial or industrial dynamism.

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  • The Scale and Diversity of Mughal Towns
  • Physical and Institutional Texture of Urban Life
  • The "Camp Town" Critique and Its Limits
  • The Rural-Urban Continuum: My Own Assessment

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