Historic City of Ahmadabad
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How it came to be
In 1411 Ahmad Shah I of the Gujarat Sultanate founded a new capital on the east bank of the Sabarmati River and named it after himself. In 1487 Mahmud Begada enclosed the city with a wall about 10 km around, with 12 gates and 189 bastions.
Inside stand Sultanate-era mosques and tombs alongside later Hindu and Jain temples. People lived in pols, gated lanes that each formed a close neighbourhood of tightly packed houses.
Akbar conquered the city for the Mughals in 1573, and it became a hub of the textile trade. The East India Company took over in 1818, and the first textile mill opened in 1861. In 1930 Gandhi set out on the Salt March from his ashram here.
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