Module 2: Origin of city in history
  Lecture 6: History of Urbanization in India (continued)
 

 

Nagara

  • A commercial centre with many merchants and markets serving a large population.
  • Circumvallation with gate-towers along with barracks and guard-houses appear to connect commerce with military power.
  • Many temples and religious communities.
  • Not an administrative centre but rather a religious and commercial settlement.

Pura

  • Pura —commercial city but of lesser means, more like a bazaar where buyer and seller meet and bargain among petty peddlers.
  • It is a fortified place though militarily not significant.
  • Agriculture was undertaken to some extent.

Nagari

  • A city that incorporates both political and commercial importance with the king's palace in the centre of the city.