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Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India / Howard Spodek.
Publication details: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2011.Description: xiii, 330 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780253355874 :
- 0253355877 :
- DS486.A4 S76 2011
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.
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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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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