[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [Town Planning in Ancient India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925) › c11.63 # Town Planning in Ancient India c11.63 Town Planning in Ancient India c11.63 - **Language:** English ### [c11.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.63) It may not be out of place to observe in conclusion that in modern times when peace and tranquillity reign throughout India under British hegemony and overlordship, hostile invasions and pillaging incursions are out of question, so that walls and moats,—the old fortifications,—have lost their original significance and importance. Hence in almost all ancient towns, the ditches have been allowed to be silted up beyond recognition and walls to lie in ruins with meagre traces here and there. In some cases, as in Baroda and Dabhoi, the walls have been deliberately pulled down and the ditches have been carefully filled up by the authorities. The consequence is that towns have been allowed to expand beyond their old boundaries without any plan or regulation. Thus “outside the survival of old religion and old governmental control respectively, the town has lost its unity and order, and begins to break down towards that congested slumdom, which is now so largely destroying it.” - [Previous: c11.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.62) - [Next: c12.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12.2) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11.63) · Pramāṇa