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Ahmedabad is India's seventh largest city--a six-hundred-year-old former textile town where Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule--and a 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 born 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 road maps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants; of Dalit laborers and female 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 Publishing India Pvt. LTD.
ISBN-10
9384898015
ISBN-13
9789384898014
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219186204

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Book Title
Ahmedabad : a City in the World
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2016
Topic
Sociology / General, Economic Conditions, Asia / India & South Asia, Customs & Traditions
Genre
Business & Economics, History, Social Science
Author
Amrita Shah
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.1 in
Item Width
5.8 in

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Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
This perceptive, sometimes bitterly funny, book portrays Ahmedabad uniquely, giving us the long view without ever lapsing into abstraction or diluting the immediacy of the present moment, "Combines solid research with literary grace . . . Both a political and an intellectual journey . . . elegantly crafted and gripping." --UR Ananthamurthy "In this richly researched and elegantly written book, Amrita Shah explores the paradoxes of Ahmedabad: a city that is at once nativist and cosmopolitan, caring and hedonistic, austere and exhibitionist. This fine study should serve as a model for other works on the rapidly changing cityscapes of twenty-first century India." --Ramachandra Guha "Shah penetrates this unusual city as it hasn't been before." --Aakar Patel
Lccn
2015-361407
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
954.75
Lc Classification Number
Ds485.G8
Copyright Date
2015

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