This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...

The urbanization of Ancient India dates back to the middle first millennium BCE. In early days, urban culture was influenced by unorthodox religious movements from East India, and social practices adopted western Hellenistic states. Urban contributed genesis spread scripts literacy in India. It spaces at royal courts that Sanskrit evolved oral language Brahmanic ritualism written cosmopolis, li...