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1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Counterpoints. Music and education |
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Counterpoints (Bloomington, Ind.)
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 movements tha |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Economic history
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Politics and government
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Ahmadābād (India) -- History -- 20th century
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Ahmadābād (India) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century
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Ahmadābād (India) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
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Ahmadābād (India) -- Biography
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India -- Ahmadābād
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collective biographies.
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Biographies
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780253000835 |
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0253000831 |
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1283235757 |
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9781283235754 |
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9786613235756 |
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661323575X |
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0253356032 |
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9780253356031 |
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0253000882 |
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9780253000880 |
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