An edition of Ahmedabad
(2011)
Ahmedabad
shock city of twentieth-century India
by Howard Spodek
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Focusing on key figures in the business and political life of the city. Howard Spodek explores three important eras in the modern history of Ahmedabad and of India as a whole: the Gandhian independence movement; the early national period of industrial development and Westernization; and the highly sectarian politics of recent decades, which have coincided with globalization and India's commercial boom. In each period, Ahmedabad has played a key role, and it also illustrates trends and tensions at work throughout Indian society.
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Ahmedabad: shock city of twentieth-century India
2011, Indiana University Press
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Table of Contents
Gandhi chooses Ahmedabad
Gandhi assembles new leadership
Vallabhbhai Patel builds the congress political machine
Anasuyaben Sarabhai engages Ahmedabad's working classes
Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai build an industrialized, westernized, prosperous, cultured, world-class company town
Indulal Yagnik challenges the Gandhian consensus
Communal violence, 1969
Chimanbhai Patel provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974
The mills close, the TLA falters, and the municipal corporation goes broke
Madhavsinh Solanki invokes the politics of caste and class
Ahmedabad 2000: the capitalist city out of control
Godhra, the Gujarat pogrom, and the consequences.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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