The City in Indian History: Urban Demography, Society and Politics

Indu Banga is Professor of History at the Punjab University, Chandigarh. Her areas of interest are the agrarian and urban history of medieval and modern India and the Punjab; and religious ideology and socio-political change in colonial Punjab. Major publications include Agrarian System of the Sikhs (1978); Civil and Military Affairs of Maharaja Ranjit Singh (conjoint 1987); The City in Indian History (ed. 1991); Ports, Port-Cities and their Hinterlands in India (1700-1950) (ed. 1992); Cultural Reorientation in Modern India (ed. Conjoint 1996); and Five Punjabi Centuries c. 1500-1990 (ed. 1997).