Description
| Course Code : | MHI-10 |
|---|---|
| Course Title : | Urbanisation in India |
| Medium : | English Medium |
| Program : | MA (History) |
| Max Marks : | 100 |
| Weightage : | 30% |
| Session : | July 2021 and January 2022 (2021-22) |
| Last Date of Submission : | 31st March, 2022 (for July 2021 session) 30th September, 2022 (for January 2022 session) |
| Solution Type : | Softcopy (PDF File) |
Indira Gandhi National Open University
MHI-10: URBANISATION IN INDIA
Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA)
Course Code: MHI-10
Assignment Code: MHI-10/AST/ TMA/2021-22
Maximum 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 are the approaches to study the medieval towns ? 20
2. What do you understand by subsistence and non-subsistence economies? Explain in the context of the Harappan civilization. 20
3. What are settlement pattern studies? Discuss surveys and excavations undertaken with regard to Early Historic urban centres. 20
4. What is the theory of urban decay? Do you agree that proliferation of land grants led
to the decline of urban centres in the Early medieval period? 20
5. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each. 10+10
i) Layout of Harappan cities
ii) Primary categories of habitation in the Vedic literature
iii) Growth of urban centres in the Sultanate period
iv) Nature of regional capital cities during the fifteenth century
SECTION – B
6. Compare Agra, Fathpur Sikri and Shahjahanabad as Mughal capital towns. 20
7. Examine the growth of the city of Surat in the 17-18th centuries. What was the pattern of urban social order of Surat? 20
8. Why did the British segregate urban centres in ‘Black’ and ‘Whilte’ towns? What kind of new urban space was produced here? 20
9. What were the urban pressures that emerged in the immediate post-independence decades, and how were they met? 20
10. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each. 10+10
i) Bidar: a manufacturing town
ii) Cities in the Kachchh-Gujarat region
iii) Hill Stations in the colonial period
iv) The city as the space of the modern
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