ABSTRACT
The emergence of towns in the Indo-Gangetic valley was of the same cultural milieu although it is difficult to trace the transformation from their pre-urban settlements. Urbanization began to fade away after the fall of the Kushana dynasty and started again since the pre-medieval period. There are many sources on the urbanization of the Early Historical period. There are literary texts, inscriptions and archaeological remains. The emergence of some towns in north India around 600 bc has been called by the historians as the Second Urban Revolution. Some of the towns had actually appeared earlier and one could discern a movement from the north-western mountain side to north India and to the Gangetic Valley. Tughluk Shah sat on the throne of Delhi in ad 1320 with the title of Giyasuddin Tughluk Shah. He constructed a huge fort about 8 km from Qutub Minar which was like a city.
