Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India /
Spodek, Howard,1941-
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.