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Mechanisms of urban growth in India: AD 600–1200

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 October 2002

Renu Thakur
Affiliation:
Dept. of History, Himachal Pradesh University, Simla, 171005, India

Abstract

Divided into three separate phases, different causative factors are presented for the emergence of urban centres in India from AD 600–1200. Agrarian expansion and the growth of markets encouraged trade, both internal and external, and the foundation of towns owed much to this interplay and to the establishment of religious centres.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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