Why did the British segregate urban centres in ‘Black’ and ‘Whilte’ towns? What kind of new urban space was produced here?

The British need to recruit and maintain a substantial army led to the creation of cantonments and urban centres close to such military stations. In Madras, the British had  a fortified area of European settlement called the White Town that was separated from the Black Town where the Indians lived. Carl Nightingale writes: In support of  the walled division of residences, governors felt it necessary to either pass or propose laws in 1680, 1688, 1690, 1698, 1706, 1743, 1745, and 1751 that regulated where  various groups could live, sometimes ordering English residents to restrict the resale of their houses to other Englishmen. Because of all thesemeasures, a dual housing  market, and even a version of what South African historian Paul Maylam calls “fiscal segregation” developed in Madras by the eighteenth century, if not before. Property  values were deemed much higher on average in White Town – even taking into account Indian merchants‟ palatial dwellings and temples _____ _______ ___ __________ _____ ___ ____ _____ ___ ____ _______ ______.
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