CONTENTS: Preface, 1. Tracing the Technological Patterns in the Forgotten City of Bidar-Ajisha C and Sanjay Subodh, 2. Reservoir or 'Tank'-watered Landscape of Peninsular India, Seventeenth to Early-Nineteenth Centuries-Ishrat Alam, 3. Revisiting Allahabad: Mapping Nostalgia and History-Lalit Joshi, 4. All Roads Lead to Lhasa: Where Tawang and Buryaria Meet-M N Rajesh, 5. The Changing Faces and Fortunes of Dhaka: Water, Land and People-Perween Hasan, 6. The Fort City of Senji (Gingee) in Medieval Times-Radhika Seshan, 7. Interface of History and Fiction in Urban Legends: Told and Untold Stories of Hyderabad-Sajjad Shahid, 8. Qutb Shahi Haidarabad's Glorious Infrastructure: Where Has It Disappeared?-Salma Ahmed Farooqui, 9. Urban Houses and Buildings in Mughal India-Shireen Moosvi, 10. The Mughal Capital as Ceremonial Centre: FathpurSikri, Agra, and Shahjahanabadin the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries-Stephen P Blake, 11. Celebrating Cities: Writing about Urban Life in Indo-Persianate Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries in India-Urvi Mukhopadhyay, 12. Modern Planning: The Case of Colonial Calcutta-Partho Datta, List of Editors and Contributors, Index.