History of Technology in India, Vol. I: From Antiquity to c. 1200 A.D. v1.c39.s2.t3.4

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Agricultural surplus was no doubt generated during the early part of the first millennium B.C., supporting non-agricultural crafts. But this did not by itself promote urbanisation. Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya has included in his book (1991) two invited articles written by Ranabir Chakravarti (Chattopadhyaya, 1991, Appendix I, pp. 305-350) and N.R. Banerji (Ibid, pp. 371-396) which touch upon the above issues. Chakravarti and Banerji tend to support the criticisms against Sharma's model.