Cities in Medieval India
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Edited by Yogesh Sharma and Pius Melekandathil
Primus Books, 838 pages, S2,195
The essays in this volume, by 29 scholars from around the world, discuss the many facets of urbanisation in pre-modern India. The writers highlight aspects of the rural–urban continuum and divide, spatialisation, labour processes and cultural production in medieval times. They prompt us to look at cities of the period—such as Agra, Lahore, Patna, Ahmedabad, Ajmer, Chittagong, Daman, Daulatabad, Cochin and Mylapore—as significantly different from those of the ancient and modern periods
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