(University of North Bengal, 2017-03) Roy, Varun Kumar
City planning is not a colonial or modern invention. A tightly executed plan is vividly
discernible in the scores of unearthed ruins of the Harappan Civilisation that
flourished more than four millennia ago. Its cities and townships had grid patterned
streets. uniform rows of brick housing, plumbing, public baths, drainage, granaries
and other public spaces and amenities that strongly presume an efficient and well-endowed, if somewhat unimaginative municipal ' administration.1 The earliest
connection of the East India Company with this district was marked by the
establishment of a factory at Kasimbazar
