[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 # 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](https://indike.org/pramana/person/dutt-bb) - **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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c1) — 8 parts - [c2 Introductory Note](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c2) — 6 parts - [c3 Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c3) — 60 parts - [c4 List of Illustrations and Diagrams](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c4) — 1 part - [c5 Chapter I: Introductory](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c5) — 43 parts - [c6 Chapter II: The Origin and Growth of Indian Cities](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c6) — 41 parts - [c7 Chapter III: Survey of the City](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c7) — 54 parts - [c8 Chapter IV: On Boundaries and Approaches](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c8) — 132 parts - [c9 Chapter V: Streets and their Planning](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c9) — 88 parts - [c10 Chapter VI: Site-Planning and Folk-Planning](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c10) — 10 parts - [c11 Chapter VII: Improvement and Expansion of Towns](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c11) — 63 parts - [c12 Chapter VIII: The Village](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c12) — 38 parts - [c13 Chapter IX: Of Buildings and Building Bye-Laws](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c13) — 45 parts - [c14 Chapter X: Of Centres and Enclosed Places](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c14) — 14 parts - [c15 Chapter XI: Individuality of Indo-Aryan Towns](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c15) — 66 parts - [c16 Chapter XII: City as the Expression of Civic Life—Interpretation of Civic Architecture : Cultural and Socio-Political](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c16) — 24 parts - [c17 Appendix A: Some Noted Ancient Indian Towns](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c17) — 6 parts - [c18 Appendix B: Camps](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c18) — 19 parts - [c19 Appendix C: Distribution of City Gates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c19) — 30 parts - [c20 Bibliography](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c20) — 21 parts - [c21 Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925.c21) — 72 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.dutt-1925) · Pramāṇa