CONTENTS
Introduction Lakshmi Subramanian The First Urbanization in the Indian Subcontinent Ranabir Chakravarti Early Historical Urban Centres, c. 600 BCE-300 CE Ranabir Chakravarti Coastal Settlements and Communities: Defining the Maritime Landscape in Early South Asia Himanshu Prabha Ray The Mughal Port Cities of Surat and Hugli Farhat Hasan Mapping the Landscape of Pondicherry in the 17th Century S. Jeyaseela Stephen Calcutta, The English City on the Ganges: Temperament and Architecture in the 18th Century Jonathan Roy Barlow The Call of the Sea: Maritime Mumbai, c. 1660-2000 Mariam Dossal Madras: Queen of the Coromandel Lakshmi Subramanian Index Contributors