Description
This book is about the emergence urban centres in the sixth century bc, and analyses the processes
and spatiality urbanization taking Malwa as its case study. Research on urbanism has focussed on either
literary or archaeological sources. While literary sources tend to locate the agency for change exclusively in
preachers and rulers, in archaeology the forces change become nameless and faceless. Using insights from
anthropology and studies early , this book attempts to look for new ways to account for urbanization
in this period. It also tries to recover the histories their complex interrelations: since caste and kinship are
considered central to the world Indian sociology, the book also attempts to understand the relationships
between caste, kinship and urbanism. Finally, it also examines changes in the attitude the literati towards
the city and the country in this period.