Subject(s): Urban growth -- Urban decay -- Agrarian Expansion -- Historical Archaeology and Problems of urban History -- Urban Growth and Decay in the North -- Urban Growth and Decay : the Middle Gangetic plains and Eastern Regions -- Urban Growth and Decay Central and Western Regions -- Urban Growth and Decay in the South -- Literary and Epigraphic Sources on Urban Decline -- Nature of Early Medieval Monastic Settlements -- Explaining the Urban Eclipse -- Consequence of De-Urbanization -- Agrarian Expansion