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MHI-111 Solved Assignment English Medium 2024-25
M.A. History Assignment For January 2025 Session
MHI-111 Urbanisation in India-2
Assignment
MHI-111: Urbanization in India-2
Course Code: MHI-111
Assignment Code: MHI-111/AST/TMA/January 2025
Total 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. Why is the study of material or physical aspects of the city alone inadequate in understanding urban history?
2. Critically examine various debates pertaining to the rise of towns in the sultanate period.
3. Discuss the characteristics of capital cities developed during the 14th-15th century.
4. What are the characteristics of Temple Towns in peninsular India? Discuss
5. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:
i Vijayanagara
ii Port town-Cambay
iii Industrial cities of the Medieval Deccan
iv Cities and Cross-cultural perspectives
Section-B
6. Do you agree that Mughal capital Shahjahanabad was a planned city? Discuss.
7. Write a note on the relationship between colonialism, Capitalism and urbanisation during early modern India.
8. How did the railways alter urban settings?
9. In what ways did colonial architecture and city planning reflect British political agenda?
10. Write short notes on any two of the following. Answer in about 250 words each:
i Cantonment
ii New risks and contemporary urbanism
iii Bombay as a working class city
iv Urban governance and Nationalist responses


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