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Ahmedabad : A City In The World
by Amrita Shah (Author),
Bloomsbury India (Group) (Publisher)
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Book Description
Ahmedabad, India's seventh-largest city, a six-hundred-year-old former textile
town where Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule, the hotbed
for communal violence. The city is known today for being Prime Minister Narendra
Modi's stronghold, the model for a new, market-led vision of development and a
harbinger of the changes sweeping through the new India. In this intimate
biography, Amrita Shah travels through time and a landscape of abandoned mills
and urban beautification projects; stone monuments and modernist architecture.
She visits neighbourhoods divided by sectarian violence and ghettos borne on the
outskirts of the city. Among the many people she meets are a young embroiderer
from Asarwa-Chamanpura, the
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9789384898014
Language English
Binding Hard Bound
Publisher Bloomsbury India (Group)
Publishing Date 2016-07-12
Product Edition 1