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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.
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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
**[[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
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*Ahmedabad was named as one of the three [[Indian]] cities best positioned to prosper and grow in this new age of [[w:Urbanization|urbanization]].
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**Forbes, in [https://www.shantigram.com/shantigram/why-ahmedabad.html ''Why Ahmedabad''], Shantigram
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[[File:IIM Panorama Ahmedabad .JPG|right|thumb|Leading institution of the [[w:Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad|Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad]].]]
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*Ahmedabad is one of the fastest developing and growing cities in India. Ahmedabad is known for its [[vibrancy]] and an [[attitude]] of celebrating [[life]] along with its spirit of [[entrepreneurship]]. A rising centre of [[education]], [[information technology]] and [[scientific industries]], Ahmedabad remains the [[cultural]] and [[commercial]] [[heart]] of [[Gujarat]] and much of [[w:Western India|western India]].
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**Shantigram, in ''Why Ahmedabad''
*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.
*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.
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**[[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
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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
*During nine months of Jehangir;s stay in Ahmadabad [in 1608] his favourite wife Nur Jahan governor of the city
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*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.
*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.
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*[[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
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*[[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.
*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.
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*[[w:Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation|Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation]], in ''Heritage walk of Ahmedabad - A City Revisited''.
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*[[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.
*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.
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*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.
*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
**Kenneth L. Gillion, in “Ahmedabad” in ''Communalism, Caste and Hindu Nationalism: The Violence in Gujarat'',p.34
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[[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.]]
[[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]].
*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]].