CONTENTS Preface 9 HENRY A. MILLON Introduction: Multiple Meanings of Space and Place11 DORIS METH SRINIVASAN Urbanization in the Pre-Indus and Beyond The Early Architectural Traditions of Greater Indus as Seen from Mehrgarh, Baluchistan 25 JEAN-FRANCOIS JARRIGE Mohenjo-daro: Type Site of the Earliest Urbanization Process in South Asia 35 MICHAEL R. N. JANSEN Reurbanization: The Eastern Punjab and Beyond 53 JIM G. SHAFFER Taxila The Urban Position of Taxila and Its Place in Northwest India-Pakistan 69 F. RAYMOND ALLCHIN Taxila : The Central Asian Connection 83 GERARD FUSSMAN Dating the Monuments of Taxila 103 SAIFUR RAHMAN DAR Sacted Spaces Madurai : The City as Goddess 125 D. DENNIS HUDSON Temples of Stone, Centers of Culture: Sacred Spaces in Early Medieval Kalinga 145 MARY F. LINDA Bhaktapur : Sacred Patterns of a Living Urban Tradition 163 NIELS GUTSCHOW Madras The Urban Configurations of Tondaiman4alam: The Kancipuram Region, c. A.D. 600-1300 185 R. CHAMPAKALAKSHMI City and State in Late Precolonial Madras209 BURTON STEIN Madras in 1800 : Perceiving the City 221 SUSAN NEILD BASU Perspectives from the Modern Era Urban Form and Meaning in South Asia: Perspectives from the Modern Era 243 NARAYANI GUPTA Beyond Rorschach Tests: Palimpsests and Nodes, Conflicts and Consciousnesses in South Asian Urban Theory 255 HOWARD SPODEK Contributors 269