Description

HMADABAD (LAT. 23°00; LONG. 72°35′) REPUTED as the 'Manchester' of western India, is a busy industrial city situated in a cotton-growing hinter-land north of the Gulf of Cambay, about 100 km upstream of the mouth of the Sabarmati river. With its teeming population of upwards of eleven hundred thousand, this textile-town has a veneer of modernity, which has all but hidden the five centuries of eventful history it had had, to which the many magnificent mosques and ornate tombs of its medieval masters bear mute testimony.

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