Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India / Howard Spodek
- Author
- Spodek, Howard, 1941-
- Published
- Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps
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- Language Note
- English.
- 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.
- Summary
- 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 pharmaceutical industries, to globalization and the sectarian violence that marked the turn of the new century. Events that happened there resonated throughout the country, for better and for worse. Howard Spodek describes the movements tha
- Subject(s)
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- ISBN
- 9780253000835 (electronic bk.)
0253000831 (electronic bk.)
1283235757
9781283235754
9786613235756
661323575X
0253356032
9780253356031
0253000882
9780253000880
0253355877
9780253355874 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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