Ahmedabad: City with a Past
A biography of Ahmedabad from a winner of the Sahitya Akademi award There are many legends around the founding of Ahmedabad. One has it that some time in 1411 AD, a dog was looking for easy prey on the banks of the Sabarmati when a hare attacked him and drove him away. Sultan Ahmed Shah witnessed the scene and, impressed by the hare's spirit, decided to build a city right there.Now, six hundred years later, Ahmedabad is a city at the intersection of the old and the new. Centuries-old dargahs and havelis stand alongside high-rises and glitzy shopping malls. Once known for its textile mills, it is now one of the world's fastest developing citi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-93-5029-798-8
- EAN: 9789350297988
- Produktnummer: 24016220
- Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers India
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 148 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 5'838 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Esther David received the Sahitya Akademi award in 2010 for her novel Book of Rachel. She is also the author of The Walled City, By the Sabarmati, Book of Esther, My Father's Zoo, Shalom India Housing Society and The Man with Enormous Wings. Her novels are based on the Jewish ethos in India, studied by scholars, and some of them have been translated into French, Gujarati and Marathi. She is an art critic and columnist for the Ahmedabad edition of the Times of India and has written extensively about the city of her birth.
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