Ahmedabad [electronic resource] : Shock City of Twentieth-Century India / Howard Spodek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spodek, Howard, 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ahmadābād (India)--Biography.

Ahmadābād (India).

Ahmadābād (India)--Politics and government--20th century.

Ahmadābād (India)--Economic conditions--20th century.

Ahmadābād (India)--History--20th century.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 movement

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1 The Gandhian Era, 1915-1950; 1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad; 2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership; 3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress PoliticalMachine; 4. Anasuyaben Sarabhai Engages Ahmedabad's Working Classes; Part 2 The Westernizing City, 1950-1980; 5. Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Build an Industrialized, Westernized, Prosperous, Cultured, World-Class Company Town; 6. Indulal Yagnik Challenges the Gandhian Consensus; Part 3 Creativity and Chaos, 1969-; 7. Communal Violence, 1969

8. Chimanbhai Patel Provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 19749. The Mills Close, the TLA Falters, and the Municipal Corporation Goes Broke; 10. Madhavsinh Solanki Invokes the Politics of Caste and Class; 11. Ahmedabad 2000: The Capitalist City Out of Control; 12. Godhra, the Gujarat Pogrom, and the Consequences; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-283-23575-7

9786613235756

0-253-00083-1

OCLC:

735596080