Ahmedabad Tourism: Hotels, Reviews, Packages, Photos, Maps, Experience, Itinerary

Ahmedabad is  old textile city is inextricably linked to India's independence movement. It is from here that Mahatma Gandhi launched his famous Dandi March, as a protest against the Salt Tax, putting India on the path of non-violence. A throbbing commercial and cultural hub, Ahmedabad was home to some of India's top business and cultural families renowned the world over. The city finds its beginnings as the capital of Sultan Ahmad Shah in 1411. In the British era it became an important military base, and expanded and modernized to cater to the need of the new rulers who absorbed it into the Bombay Presidency. The city which rose to become one of India's most important textile hubs attracted the epithet Manchester of the East. It comes as no surprise that Gandhiji used the charkha  as one of the most important symbols of