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The city in early India: Perspectives from texts:
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The moral order derived from its ruler who gave the city its ’orthogenetic’ character as mentioned in this paper, and the order it represented was not a moral order but a technical order, an environment for both good and evil.Abstract:
city, the really significant point, Ramanujan pointed out, is that the wellplanned city of Ayodhyd as described by V51miki ’matches the moral order and the well-planned hierarchy of the society it houses’. The moral order derived from its ruler who gave the city its ’orthogenetic’ character. By contrast, Puhar, the littoral city of the Tamil country in the epic Silappadikaram,2 was ’heterogenetic’; the order it represented was not a moral order but ’a technical order, an environment for both good and evil’. Madurai, also of Silappadikaram, was another variant-a unitary city which was protected but corrupt, and unlike Puhar, was closed and positively inhospitable to outsiders.read more
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Ancient South Asian cities in their regions
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The making of early medieval India
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of abbreviations of early pioneer cultures in early medieval India, including the origin of the RJPUTs, the political, economic, and social processes, and the structure of polity in early pioneer countries.