[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) › c3.10 # Town Planning in Ancient India c3.10 Town Planning in Ancient India c3.10 - **Language:** English ### [c3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3.10) When I think of offering my sincere thanks to those who have assisted me in my work, the outstanding figure that shines forth first in my mind is that of one who suggested this subject to me for research. Not content with electrifying away the lethargy and procrastination of the writer with his own enthusiasm, he has collected many materials for him, studied much of them himself, gone through the chapters one by one, carefully criticised them, suggested many hints for improvement, and has patiently borne the tedious drudgery of seeing the book through the press and correcting the proofs. In a word, he has worked for me; he has worked through me. But my relation with him is such that my Hindu instinct precludes me from marring its sanctity and naturalness with any expression that may, even remotely, smack of ceremoniousness. Ours is a natural bond in which reciprocal assistance and co-operation is a divine duty. Therefore bowing to him in reverence I turn to the first man who claims my heart-felt thanks. I gratefully acknowledge the invaluable assistance which Mr. O. C. Gangooly, the gifted editor of the \*Rupam\*, has rendered me by allowing me to use and utilise his manuscript copy of the Mānasāra. Prof. Radhakamal Mukerjee and Prof. Beni Madhav Barua have also laid me under obligation by supplying me with references of books that may have dealt with the subject of my investigation. Last but not the least to whom my heart goes out to offer its sincere tribute of gratefulness is Prof. Patrick Geddes who has obliged this juvenile author, unknown to fame as he is, by consenting to write the introduction which adorns these pages at a time when he was seriously ill and was hurrying through his pre-occupations to go home in order to recoup his shattered health. He is pre-eminently the fittest person, as one who first kindled the imagination of the inspiring genius of this thesis, to act as the priest of introducing it to the public with his benedictions. - [Previous: c3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3.9) - [Next: c3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3.11) - [Up: c3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3.10) · Pramāṇa