Ahmedabad : Shock City of Twentieth-Century India.
Title:
Ahmedabad : Shock City of Twentieth-Century India.
Author:
Spodek, Howard.
ISBN:
9780253000835
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Gandhian Era, 1915-1950 -- 1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad -- 2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership -- 3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress PoliticalMachine -- 4. Anasuyaben Sarabhai Engages Ahmedabad's Working Classes -- Part 2 The Westernizing City, 1950-1980 -- 5. Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Build an Industrialized, Westernized, Prosperous, Cultured, World-Class Company Town -- 6. Indulal Yagnik Challenges the Gandhian Consensus -- Part 3 Creativity and Chaos, 1969- -- 7. Communal Violence, 1969 -- 8. Chimanbhai Patel Provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974 -- 9. The Mills Close, the TLA Falters, and the Municipal Corporation Goes Broke -- 10. Madhavsinh Solanki Invokes the Politics of Caste and Class -- 11. Ahmedabad 2000: The Capitalist City Out of Control -- 12. Godhra, the Gujarat Pogrom, and the Consequences -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
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 that swept the city, telling their story through the careers of the men and women who led them.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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