Cities in Medieval India - Hardcover

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.

Yogesh Sharma is Professor at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His field of research includes the European traders and Indian commercial and maritime history.