Ahmedabad
Subtitle: shock city of twentieth-century India
By: Howard Spodek
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9780253355874
Subjects: Politics and government; Economic conditions; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gandhi chooses Ahmedabad; title: Gandhi assembles new leadership; title: Vallabhbhai Patel builds the congress political machine; title: Anasuyaben Sarabhai engages Ahmedabad's working classes; title: Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai build an industrialized, westernized, prosperous, cultured, world-class company town; title: Indulal Yagnik challenges the Gandhian consensus; title: Communal violence, 1969; title: Chimanbhai Patel provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974; title: The mills close, the TLA falters, and the municipal corporation goes broke; title: Madhavsinh Solanki invokes the politics of caste and class; title: Ahmedabad 2000: the capitalist city out of control; title: Godhra, the Gujarat pogrom, and the consequences.