Periods | No. of metropolises | Name of metropolises |
The Early Historical Period (600 BC to AD 500) | 9 | Varanasi , Patna, Allahabad, Madurai, Surat, Nashik, Kollam, Jabalpur, Kochi |
Medieval Period (AD 600-1800) | 34 | Vijayawada, Srinagar, Thrissur, Tiruchirappalli, Visakhapatnam, Vadodara, Meerut, Gwalior, Delhi, Kota, Kozhikode, Raipur, Lucknow, Ahmadabad, Jodhpur, Ludhiana, Rajkot, Amritsar, Bhopal, Nagpur, Ghaziabad, Agra, Greater Mumbai. Hyderabad, Aurangabad, Chennai, Indore, Kolkata, Thiruvananthapuram, Bangalore, Pune, Jaipur, Vasai-Vivar and Malappuram |
British Period (1800-1947) | 7 | Kanpur, Kannur, Ranchi, Coimbatore, Dhanbad, Asansol, Jamshedpur |
The Post-Independence Period (After 1947) | 2 | Faridabad, Durg-Bhilainagar |