MHI 10 URBANISATION IN INDIA
Solved assignment 2020-21
MHI-10 Assignment Code:
Total Marks: 100
Note:
Attempt any five questions. The assignment is divided into two Sections 'A' and
'B'. You have to attempt at least two questions from each section in about 500
words each. All questions carry equal marks.
SECTION-A
1. What is
urban history? Write briefly on the historiography of urbanism.
2. Discuss
the main features of the city of Mohenjodaro.
3.
Critically examine the depiction of the cities in the ancient Indian texts.
4. What were
the markers of an urban centre in the early medieval period? Elaborate your
argument on the basis of Tallanandpur, Siyadoni and Venugrama.
5. Write
short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
i)
Lefebvre’s notion of space
ii)
Perception of forests in the early Indian literature
iii) Gaur
and Pandua
iv) Temple town of Srirangam
SECTION-B
6. Give a
comparative analysis of the spatial pattern of Ajmer-Banaras-Pandharpur.
7. Give a
brief account of the cities in the Kachchh-Gujarat region during the seventeentheighteenth
century.
8. Describe
the emergence of canal colonies. What was its impact? How did it alter the urban
spaces?
9. In what
ways did the colonial Indian cities embody the visible signs and symbols of
modernity?
10. Write
short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each.
i)
Patrimonial-bureaucratic cities of the Mughal empire
ii)
Industrial cities of the Deccan in the medieval period
iii) Goa: a
Portuguese city
iv) Presidency towns
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