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



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Autore: Spodek Howard <1941-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ahmedabad [[electronic resource] ] : Shock City of Twentieth-Century India / / Howard Spodek Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2011
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
Disciplina: 954.75
954/.75
Soggetto geografico: Ahmadābād (India) Biography
Ahmadābād (India) Politics and government 20th century
Ahmadābād (India) Economic conditions 20th century
Ahmadābād (India) History 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Ahmedabad  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-23575-7
9786613235756
0-253-00083-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910456843603321
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