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Ahmedabad’s history of segregation 

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Wall Street Journal

Many Indian cities are segregated, but Ahmedabad, the commercial hub of Gujarat, is more so than most. In his book “Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century India,” Howard Spodek, a history professor at Temple who has spent his career studying Gujarat, says the city’s housing segregation is among the “most extreme” in India. The same goes for its history of communal violence, he and other scholars say.