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100 _aSpodek, Howard
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245 _aAhmedabad : shock city of Twentieth-century India
260 _aNew Delhi
_bOrient Blackswan Pvt. Ltd.
_c2012
300 _axvi,330p.
505 _aCONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Introduction i PART I - The Gandhian Era, 1915-1950 17 1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad 21 2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership 37 3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress Political Machine 70 4. Anasuyaben Sarabhai Engages Ahmedabad's Working Classes 94 PART 2 - The Westernizing City, 1950-1980 115 5. Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai Build an Industrialized, Westernized, Prosperous, Cultured, World-Class Company Town 121 6. Indulal Yagnik Challenges the Gandhian Consensus 140 PART 3 - Creativity and Chaos, 1969- 165 7. Communal Violence, 1969 171 8. Chimanbhai Patel Provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974 181 9. The Mills Close, the TLA Falters, and the Municipal Corporation Goes Broke 195 10. Madhavsinh Solanki Invokes the Politics of Caste and Class 207 11. Ahmedabad 2000: The Capitalist City Out of Control 227 12. Godhra, the Gujarat Pogrom, and the Consequences 248 Glossary 271 Notes 275 Bibliography 301 Index 311
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