Tag: Ahmedabad

Manchester is a city situated in north west England, to the south of which lies river Mersey. Infamous for being at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution and consequently the first industrialised city in the world, Manchester was the hub for textile manufacturing, particularly cotton. This is also the reason why the city had been often dubbed “cottonopolis”.

The city of Manchester is not without parallels, at least not in India. Sitting at the banks of the Sabarmati river, which lines through the state of Gujarat in North-west India is Ahmedabad. This city, the biggest in Gujarat is the hub of cotton textile industry in India. Moreover, the waters of Sabarmati have proven to be a boon for the thriving cotton warehouses in that it helps dye cotton threads. The semi-arid climate of the city too makes for everything necessary for the industries to flourish. The cotton manufactured herein are exported to the rest of the world, much akin to Manchester of England.

For these reasons, Ahmedabad is fittingly called the ‘Manchester of India’.