TY - BOOK AU - Yogesh Sharma,Ed AU - Pius Malekandathil,Ed TI - Cities in medieval India SN - 9789380607993 U1 - 307.760954 PY - 2014/// CY - Delhi PB - Primus KW - Urbanization KW - Cities and towns, Medieval N2 - Papers presented at two separate colloquia, held at the Centre for Historical Studies and Jawaharlal Nehru University, between March 2008 and March 2009. Cities in Medieval India focuses on the significance of urbanization in medieval India, by highlighting aspects of the rural-urban continuum and divide, power assertion, spatialization, social segmentation, labour process, as well as aspects of culture and human activity. By relating urbanization to issues such as economic transformation, commercial dynamism, agricultural production, ecology and environment and the exercise of power and authority, the essays in this volume discuss many facets of the medieval cities ER -