Ahmedabad : shock city of twentieth-century India /

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Author / Creator:Spodek, Howard, 1941-
Imprint:Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2011.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 330 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:English
Series:Counterpoints. Music and education
Counterpoints (Bloomington, Ind.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101674
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ISBN:9780253000835
0253000831
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.
Other form:Print version: Spodek, Howard, 1941- Ahmedabad. Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2011 0253355877