Ahmedabad: A City in the World (Record no. 49646)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789384898014
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 954.75 SHA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Shah, Amrita
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Ahmedabad: A City in the World
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Bloomsbury India
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 216
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Ahmedabad, India's seventh-largest city, a six-hundred-year-old former textile town where Mahatma Gandhi launched his struggle against British rule, the 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.<br/>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 neighbourhoods divided by sectarian violence and ghettos borne 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.<br/>This is the story of roadmaps and rivers, kings and kingmakers, merchants and savants; of Dalit labourers and women 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.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Travel - Ahmedābād
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Ahmedābād (India)
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Description and Travel
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