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[[w:Ahmedabad|Ahmedabad]] is the largest city and former capital of the [[w:States of India|Indian state]] of [[w:Gujarat|Gujarat]]. It is located on the banks of the [[w:Sabarmati River|Sabarmati River]], 30 km (19 mi) from the state capital [[w:Gandhinagar|Gandhinagar]]. It is also ranked third in Forbes' list of fastest growing cities of the decade and also the fifth largest city and seventh largest [[w:Metropolitan area|metropolitan area]] of [[India]].
==Quotes==
Ahmadabad is the seventh largest city of [[India]]. Over time the city has grown from a city of trade and commerce to an important industrial centre. Its citizens have made remarkable achievements in other spheres as well.
**[[Dwijendra Tripathi]], in [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=hnDaAAAAMAAJ&q=ahmedabad&dq=ahmedabad&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T3mAU4ajDNTh8AXWsoC4AQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y ''Alliance for Change: A Slum Upgrading Experiment in Ahmedabad''], 1 January 1998, p.vii
*What beauty and excellence can the founder of the city seen in this wretched city with its dust-laden air, its hot winds, its dry river-bed, its brackish nasty water and its thron covered suburbs.
**[[Emperor Jahangir|Emperor Jahangir]], who called it dust city Gurdabad and several other names, in 1608, in [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=DLUBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=ahmedabad&hl=en&sa=X&ei=T3mAU4ajDNTh8AXWsoC4AQ&sqi=2&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=ahmedabad%20city%20history&f=false ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad''], Government Central Press, 1879, pp.254-55
*During nine months of Jehangir;s stay in Ahmadabad [in 1608] his favourite wife Nur Jahan governor of the city
**Colonel Briggs, in ''Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Ahmedabad'', p.255
*The city's [[history]] unfolds back its birth from a 10th century AD ancient site known as [[w:Ashaval|Ashaval]] to the present walled city re-founded during the period of [[w:Ahmed Shah I|Ahmad Shah]] and onwards.
*[[w:Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation|Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]], in NGO, CRUTA Foundation [http://www.bilkulonline.com/features/articles/86-heritage-walk-of-ahmedabad-a-city-revisited ''Heritage walk of Ahmedabad - A City Revisited''|, Bilkulonline
*The plan of the old city, comprises numerous pols [residential complexes], self contained neighborhoods, sheltering large numbers of people, traversed by narrow streets, usually terminating in squares with community wells and chabutaras for feeding birds.
*[[w:Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation|Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]], in ''Heritage walk of Ahmedabad - A City Revisited''.
*Until the beginning of the twentieth century most of Ahmedabad’s [[population]] resided within the Fort Walls [on the eastern bank of the Sabaramati River. The opening of the first [[w:Ahmedabad textile industry|Ahmedabad textile mill]] in 1861 and of the railway line between Ahmedabad and [[Bombay]] [now Mumbai] three years was a harbinger of the city’s rapid expansion. The developing textile industry generated waves of [[migration]] into the city and extensive growth of its population and territory.
**Ornit Shani, in [http://books.google.co.in/books?id=ouAB7o63B9IC&pg=PA25 ''Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat''], Cambridge University Press, 12 July 2007, p.25
*Socially, economically and in its structural and spatial design, the city had gradually been divided into three parts. From the end of 1960s, Ahmedabad became the story of three cities.
**B.K. Roy Burman, in Social profile, in ''Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'', p.32
*The walled city, with its twelve gates and numerous mosques, temples and towers, was founded in 1411 by Ahmad Shah on the eastern bank of the Sabarmati River. Despite its dilapidated condition, the [[w:Indo-Islamic architecture|Indian Islamic architecture]] and the houses decorated with wood carvings attest to its affluent status.
**Anjana Desai, in Environmental Perceptions, in ''Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'', p.33
*The first to move beyond the walls with the growth of the city’s population were the wealthy mill-owners. They built [[w:Bungalow|bungalow]]s in the northern suburb of [[w:Shahibag|Shahibag]]. From the early 1920s, wealthy members of upper-caste groups began moving to the western side of the river, where they constructed housing societies. These small cooperative apartment buildings, alongside buildings, became the new residential pattern in the area.
**Kenneth L. Gillion, in “Ahmedabad” in ''Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'',p.34
[[File:Gandhi Ashram 1227.JPG|right|thumb|[[Mahatma Gandhi]]: This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for [[Truth]] and develop [[Fearlessness]]- for on one side, are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other, thunderbolts.]]
*This is the right place for our activities to carry on the search for [[Truth]] and develop [[Fearlessness]]- for on one side, are the iron bolts of the foreigners, and on the other, thunderbolts of Mother [[Nature]].
**[[Mahatma Gandhi]], in [http://www.mkgandhi.org/museum/Sabarmati.htm Sabarmati Ashram Ahmedabad, Gujarat]]. Gandhi stayed at the Ashram from 1915 to 1933, later on the Ashram was disbanded. The Ashram is a witness to many important historical events.
===Historic city of Ahmadabad===
<small>[[w: UNESCO|UNESCO]] [http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5616/ ''Historic city of Ahmadabad'']</small>
[[File:Teen Darwaza 1880s.jpg|right|thumb|...... After AD. 1411 came to be erected the oldest extant fortification of the city, viz., the square [[Bhadra Fort|Bhadra towers]], which with massive form included the royal [[w:Citadel|citadel]] on an area of about 16 hectares.]]
*Ahmadabad is a curious amalgam of [[conservative]] [[traditions]] and [[w:Multiculturalism|cosmopolitan]] trends. Reputed as 'Manchester' of India, is a busy [[industrial]] city situated in cotton-growing hinterland north of [[w:Gulf of Cambay|Gulf of Cambay]], about 100 km upstream of the mouth of the [[w:Sabarmati River|Sabarmati river]].
*Ahmadabad's walled city has a [[history]] of last six centuries. It has a unique settlement which has acquired significant importance for its patterns and [[w:Homogeneity|homogeneity]] of [[community]] living which is characteristic of its [[economic]] reliance on [[trade]] and [[commerce]] since centuries.
*The foundations of the city of Ahmadabad were laid by [[w:Ahmed Shah I|Ahmad Shah]] with benedictions of his spiritual preceptor, Shaikh Ahmad Khattu Ganj Bakhsh of [[w:Sarkhej|Sarkhej]]... After AD. 1411 came to be erected the oldest extant fortification of the city, viz., the square [[w:Bhadra Fort|Bhadra towers]], which with massive form included the royal [[w:Citadel|citadel]] on an area of about 16 hectares.
*Its wealth of wooden architecture of settlements is also a great heritage for which the city is well known since centuries and is considered a storehouse of integrated crafts which extended from block making for textile printing to some of the finest expressions in traditional houses and temple building arts...Its economic enterprise sustaining the city and state, its wisdom in financial expertise and its guild tradition for community co-existence, leading to a world class status in textiles in 19th century.
*[[India]]'s most import struggle for [[Indian Independence|independence]] also originated here when [[Mahatma Gandhi]] made this city his home in his formative period. His associations within the historic city first and then at a wealthy merchant's house' Kocharab are preserved in his memory [[w:Sabarmati Ashram|Sabarmati Ashram]] here which he conceived as a model for [[Indian]] way [[life]] on the banks of Sabarmati river is a global pilgrimage place. This was the place he wanted to develop as an ideal set up for demonstrating the Indian way of life. He left from here to start the famous [[w:Dandi March|Dandi March]] which really marked the struggle for Independence Movement in India.
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