Analysis the urbanization in the early medieval north India.

 Urbanisation in the early medieval period (c. 600-1300 CE) of Indian history was connected with the growth of regional Kingdoms and an expansion of Indian Ocean trade.

Maero level changes took place which produced new patterns of interaction. Agrahara system of land grants by the royalty created a new class of land holders which was a new socio-economic formation based on land grants. There was a substantial change in the material milieu from the earlier period as a result of these land grants. 

Expansion of agrarian economy could be perceived along with state formation and expansion of state societies in the periphery, Villages were neither isolates nor undifferentiated, and were connected with the apex or supra-local political centres through administrative tiers at locality levels. Agrarian economy gave fillip to non-agrarian sector thereby leading to a process of urbanisation.

Thus early medieval urbanisation could be characterised by changes in the agrarian economy, greater complexities in the political sphere and an expanding Indian Ocean trade network.

However to locate the urban centres and then to explain their growth remain a vexed problem and sifting through the vast epigraphic and other types of textual data and looking for a pura, nagara or pattana, different terms denoting urban centres, would be a preliminary way of approaching the problem.

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