About the Book: Ahmedabad: A City in the World
Ahmedabads makeover in the wake of the 2002 communal riots in Gujarat brought
Narendra Modi to national attention as a development wizard. Reports of gleaming
roads and new infrastructure swayed the watershed election of 2014. How was this
whirlwind development achieved and what was it all about? Amrita Shah immersed
herself in the six-hundred-year-old former textile town where once Mahatma
Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule. Amidst the lingering
devastation of the riots, she found euphoria surrounding the developmental model
which drew from global place-marketing strategies and met Hindu majoritarian
goals. In exploring the evolving ethos of