UPSC History Optional · Paper I · 2022 · Q5(b) · 10 marks
The establishment of large number of urban settlements in North India in the thirteenth century was principally owing to the deployment of Turkish garrisons across the lands. Comment.
- Chapter
- Society, Culture and Economy in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Topic
- Towns, Urbanisation and Trade
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