Town Planning in Ancient India
Town types, sites, walls, gates, streets, houses, drainage and civic buildings, from Vāstu-śāstras, Arthaśāstra, epics, Pali canon and archaeology.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Binode Behari Dutt
- Extent
- 979 passages, 79,840 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Calcutta: Thacker, Spink 1925; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (Binode Behari Dutt); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 8 parts
- c2 Introductory Note — 6 parts
- c3 Foreword — 60 parts
- c4 List of Illustrations and Diagrams — 1 part
- c5 Chapter I: Introductory — 43 parts
- c6 Chapter II: The Origin and Growth of Indian Cities — 41 parts
- c7 Chapter III: Survey of the City — 54 parts
- c8 Chapter IV: On Boundaries and Approaches — 132 parts
- c9 Chapter V: Streets and their Planning — 88 parts
- c10 Chapter VI: Site-Planning and Folk-Planning — 10 parts
- c11 Chapter VII: Improvement and Expansion of Towns — 63 parts
- c12 Chapter VIII: The Village — 38 parts
- c13 Chapter IX: Of Buildings and Building Bye-Laws — 45 parts
- c14 Chapter X: Of Centres and Enclosed Places — 14 parts
- c15 Chapter XI: Individuality of Indo-Aryan Towns — 66 parts
- c16 Chapter XII: City as the Expression of Civic Life—Interpretation of Civic Architecture : Cultural and Socio-Political — 24 parts
- c17 Appendix A: Some Noted Ancient Indian Towns — 6 parts
- c18 Appendix B: Camps — 19 parts
- c19 Appendix C: Distribution of City Gates — 30 parts
- c20 Bibliography — 21 parts
- c21 Index — 72 parts