Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India /
In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity -- from Gandhi's political and labor organizing, through the growth of textile, chemical, and pharm...
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Bloomington, IN :
Indiana University Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | Counterpoints (Bloomington, Ind.)
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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.
