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Highlight how colonial legacies continue to shape the urban morphology of Indian metropolitan cities.

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  • Settlements

Colonialism did not merely occupy Indian cities; it built the spatial grammar of their metropolitan cores. Anthony King's Colonial Urban Development (1976) showed the colonial city as a designed instrument of racial and administrative power, and Ashok Dutt's colonial and bazaar city models gave that insight cartographic form; Jyoti Hosagrahar (Indigenous Modernities) added that even…

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  • The colonial morphological template
  • Structural dualism and its reproduction
  • Colonial element and contemporary manifestation
  • Case example: Mumbai and the colonial template at work
  • Challenges imposed by the inherited morphology
  • Way Forward
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