Ahmedabad
Focusing on key figures in the business and political life of the city. Howard Spodek explores three important eras in the modern history of Ahmedabad and of India as a whole: the Gandhian independence movement; the early national period of industrial development and Westernization; and the highly sectarian politics of recent decades, which have coincided with globalization and India's commercial boom. In each period, Ahmedabad has played a key role, and it also illustrates trends and tensions at work throughout Indian society.
