Taxila's Sirkap and the so-called Greek urban plan

Record summary

Taxila continued to be documented and interpreted after the partition of British India, with Sirkap remaining a major case for studying Hellenistic, Indo-Scythian, Indo-Parthian and Kushan urban forms. Its gridded streets, religious buildings and mixed architectural vocabulary have prompted arguments about Greek planning, local adaptation and successive political regimes. The unresolved issue is not whether Sirkap existed, but how much of its plan and iconography should be attributed to imported Hellenistic models versus local urban traditions. Researchers should consult excavation volumes, site plans and later architectural reassessments.