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Spodek. Spodek.

Ahmedabad : Shock city of twentieth-century India - New Delhi Orient Blackswan 2012 - 330p ix

Content:
Acknowledgments;
Introduction;
Part 1. The Gandhian Era, 1915–1950;
1. Gandhi Chooses Ahmedabad;
2. Gandhi Assembles New Leadership;
3. Vallabhbhai Patel Builds the Congress Political Machine;
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, 1974;
9. 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

ISBN: 9788125046615

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Ahmadabad - India - History - 20th Century2. Economic Conditions - Politics & Government 3. Ahmadabad - India - Biography

Dewey Class. No.: 954.750000 / SPO