IGNOU MHI 10 SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2021-22

 

MHI-10: URBANISATION IN INDIA SOLVED ASSIGNMENT 2021-22

 Course Code: MHI-10

 Assignment Code: MHI-05/AST/ TMA/2021-22

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. 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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