New IGNOU MHI-10 Help Book Urbanisation in India in English – MA History Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Introduction to Urban History
What is Urban History
Approaches to the Study of Ancient Cities
Approaches to the Study of Medieval Urbanisation
Themes on Modern Cities

Block 2 – The Earliest Cities in the Subcontinent
An Introduction to Early Urbanism
Distribution and Morphology of Harappan Settlements
Harappan Economy and Occupations
Harappan Urban Societies
Case Study of a Major Urban Centre : Mohenjodaro

Block 3 – Early Historic Cities
Archaeology of the Early Historic Urban Centres in North India: Emergence and Characteristics
Archaeology of the Emergence of Early Cities and the Characteristics of the Early Historic Urban Centres: South India
Urban Centres and Other Types of Spaces
Cities in Texts
Early Historic Cities in the Taxila Valley: Archaeological Perspectives

Block 4 – Urbanisation in Medieval India-1 (part-1)
Urbanisation in Post-Gupta Period: Archaeological Evidence
Early Medieval Urbanisation from Epigraphy and Texts

Block 5 – Urbanisation in Medieval India-1(Part-2)
Sultanate and its Cities
Regional Cities
Temple Towns in Peninsular India
Southern Dimension: The Glory of Vijayanagara
Sultanate Capital Cities in the Delhi Riverine Plain

Block 6 – Urbanisation in Medieval India-2
Spatial Characteristics of Mughal Cities
Urban Patterns in Medieval Deccan
Urban Culture and Society
Primate Cities: Agra-Fathpur Sikri-Shahjahanabad
Sacred City Spaces: Ajmerbanaras-Pandharpur
Case Study: Masulipatnam

Block 7 – Early Modern Cities
Capitalism, Colonialism and Cities in Early Modern India
Port Cities: Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
Cities in the 18th Century-1
Cities in Eighteenth Century-2
Case Study: Lucknow

Block 8 – Colonial Cities-1
Dependent Urbanisation and New Urban Forms in Colonial India
Race, Class and Ethnicity in the Colonial City
The City as the Site of Spectacle
The City as the Site of Movements

Block 9 – Colonial Cities-2
Modernity and the City in Colonial India
City Planning in India Under British Rule
Predicaments of Post Colonial Cities
Case Study: Bombay