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Medieval Indian towns were merely an extension of villages. Comment.

  • UPSC 2012
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

The claim that the medieval Indian town was little more than a swollen village captures something real about its social texture, but it flattens a far more differentiated urban landscape that had emerged by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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  • The Case for Towns as Extended Villages
  • The Case Against: A Genuinely Differentiated Urban Order
  • Reconciling the Two Views

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