[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) › c16.12 # Town Planning in Ancient India c16.12 Town Planning in Ancient India c16.12 - **Language:** English ### [c16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.12) Howbeit it cannot be gainsaid that caste-distinction prevented one thing; it did not make poverty a crime, a depressing disqualification. In the towns or villages building-blocks were not distributed exclusively on the basis of wealth, thus dividing the city into two parts like the East End and the West End of London. Though from the standpoint of city sanitation the difference mattered little, yet so far as corporate life and the building up of individual character and civic consciousness were concerned, it meant a good deal of difference. Freedom of religious belief, freedom of worshipping the tutelary deities, and communal instincts were the equilibrating and unifying forces that arrested the social disintegration that was likely to accrue out of social differences and consequent caste-acerbities. - [Previous: c16.11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.11.4) - [Next: c16.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.13) - [Up: c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16.12) · Pramāṇa