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Colonial Urbanism in India by senthil kumar is a document available to read on EtoBox.
Urban design in colonial cities like Madras (now Chennai) was closely tied to establishing colonial control and trade. [1] The city originated as a small British trading post in 1639 that expanded by confiscating surrounding villages and grew as a center of European trade in India under East India Company rule in the late 17th/18th centuries. [2] The colonial urban plan separated the original British settlement from surrounding Indian areas, and development of infrastructure like the harbor, railway station
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