This learned treatise on town planning in early south India by a distinguished authority on the subject seeks to expound the theory and principles that underlay the ancient art of town planning in South India which upto not so distant a past was one of the great city-making regions of the world. The author selects for the purpose four most ancient cities in South India – Ganjeevaram, Madurai, Kaveripumpttinam and Vanji – which have been acclaimed as model ...
