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Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0253355877, 9780253355874
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5058507 bytes)
Pages
357\357
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

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. (2012)

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