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Ahmedabad: A City in the World by Amrita Shah (Hardcover, 2015)

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Ahmedabad, India's seventh-largest city, a six-hundred-year-old former textile town where Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule, the hotbed for communal violence. The city is known today for being Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stronghold, the model for a new, market-led vision of development and a harbinger of the changes sweeping through the new India. In this intimate biography, Amrita Shah travels through time and a landscape of abandoned mills and urban beautification projects; stone monuments and modernist architecture. She visits neighbourhoods divided by sectarian violence and ghettos borne on the outskirts of the city. Among the many people she meets are a young embroiderer from Asarwa-Chamanpura, the architect of the Riverfront project, a poet-turned-civil servant, a popular singing duo and a well-heeled socialite. This is the story of roadmaps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants; of Dalit labourers and women bootleggers, displaced Muslims and a euphoric middle class. It is also the incredible story of hope and vulnerability at the heart of a metropolis. Searing, illuminating, and beautifully written, Ahmedabad: A City in the World is essential reading for an insight into contemporary India.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Bloomsbury India
ISBN-13
9789384898014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
213502028

Product Key Features

Book Title
Ahmedabad: a City in the World
Author
Amrita Shah
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
129mm
Item Width
198mm
Item Weight
321g

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Amrita Shah
Country/Region of Manufacture
India

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