Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India /

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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 pharm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Spodek, Howard, 1941-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Colección:Counterpoints (Bloomington, Ind.)
Temas:
1900 - 1999
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Economic history
Politics and government
Ahmadābād (India) > History > 20th century.
Ahmadābād (India) > Economic conditions > 20th century.
Ahmadābād (India) > Politics and government > 20th century.
Ahmadābād (India) > Biography.
India > Ahmadābād
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Gandhi chooses Ahmedabad
  • Gandhi assembles new leadership
  • Vallabhbhai Patel builds the congress political machine
  • Anasuyaben Sarabhai engages Ahmedabad's working classes
  • Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai build an industrialized, westernized, prosperous, cultured, world-class company town
  • Indulal Yagnik challenges the Gandhian consensus
  • Communal violence, 1969
  • Chimanbhai Patel provokes the Nav Nirman Movement, 1974
  • The mills close, the TLA falters, and the municipal corporation goes broke
  • Madhavsinh Solanki invokes the politics of caste and class
  • Ahmedabad 2000: the capitalist city out of control
  • Godhra, the Gujarat pogrom, and the consequences.

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