Urbanization of South Asia under Muslim and British Rules

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This research project aimed to clarify the process of urbanization in South Asia and to trace the historical change in the socio-economic conditions and in the social consciousness of the city dwellers under Muslim and British rules from historical, political, sociological, economic and literary viewpoints.In the first phase of the project, the microfilm copies of the important source materials relating to the topic were collected at the archives in south Asian countries and England. The collected documents include unpublished government records on the handloom industry, the Indian Newspaper Reports, Bengali weekly newspapers and the Urdu magazines published before 1947.The research work has so far clarified the development of overseas trade in South India in the 16th-17th centuries, and the changes in the economic situation of the handloom weavers in North and South Indian towns under British rule. Some important aspects of Muslim movement in urban areas have been also clarified.