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The history of urbanization in India: Has such a field even developed yet? Experts have asserted it has not—or, at least, nearly not. Ashish Bose, leading demographer and bibliographer of Indian urbanization, wrote in 1976, "in India, Urban History is almost non-existent." 1 In 1977 S. N. Mukherjee, distinguished social historian, student of the history of Calcutta, and pioneer in the use of computer methods in studying Indian urban history, added: "Urban history is a neglected subject in India.... It has not yet evolved as a subject in its own right." 2 K. N. Chaudhuri of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, speaks of the indifference with which Indian historians have approached the urban heritage of the subcontinent in the
Howard Spodek (Thu,) studied this question.