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Ahmedabad - A City in the World

Amrita Shah

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Description:Ahmedabad, India's seventh largest city, a sixhundred 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 neighborhoods 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 poetturnedcivil servant, a popular singing duo and a well-heeled socialite. This is the story of road-maps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants of Dalit laborers 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ahmedabad - A City in the World. To get started finding Ahmedabad - A City in the World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 216

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Bloomsbury

Release: 2015

ISBN: 9384898015

Description: Ahmedabad, India's seventh largest city, a sixhundred 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 neighborhoods 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 poetturnedcivil servant, a popular singing duo and a well-heeled socialite. This is the story of road-maps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants of Dalit laborers 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ahmedabad - A City in the World. To get started finding Ahmedabad - A City in the World, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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