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Manek Chowk is a prominent city square located in Old Ahmedabad, India. Surrounded by historical structures, it serves as a vegetable market in the morning, a bullion market in the noon, and transforms into a vibrant street food market at night. [1]
The west bank of the river is known as new Ahmedabad, where upper-middle-class people live; while the east bank of the river is old Ahmedabad, where lower-income people and minority class people live. [4] The whole market is placed in the open space at Sabarmati Riverfront at Ellisbridge. The market does not have any formal physical entrance gate.
The Sindhi people live mainly in the north-western part of India. Many Sindhis inhabit the states of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh as well as the Indian capital of New Delhi. Most Sindhis of India follow the Hindu religion (90%), although Sindhi Sikhs are a prominent minority (5-10%).
In 1817, Ahmedabad fell under British Company rule which stabilized the city politically and improved the trade. The population rose from 80,000 in 1817 to about 88,000 in 1824. During the eight following years a special cess was levied on ghee and other products and at a cost of £25,000 (Rs. 2,50,000) the city walls were repaired.
The gross domestic product of Ahmedabad metro was estimated at US$136.1 billion in 2023. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ahmedabad is the largest contributor to the GDP of Gujarat state, with an estimated US$68 billion as of 2017 [ 3 ] out of $227 billion, textile and clothing in Ahmedabad is one of the oldest industries.
Lal Loi is the Sindhi term for the Punjabi winter folk festival of Lohri. [3] [4] It is celebrated in some parts of the Pakistani province of Sindh by the Hindus and also celebrated by Sindhi Hindus in India. On the day of Lal Loi children bring wood sticks from their grand parents and aunties and light a fire burning the sticks in the night ...
The Sindhi Market and Bhanderi Pole areas of Ahmedabad were also reportedly attacked by mobs. [98] India Today reported on 20 May 2002 that there were sporadic attacks on Hindus in Ahmedabad. On 5 May, Muslim rioters attacked Bhilwas locality in the Shah Alam area. [99]
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation declared the Ellis bridge and its boundary, Manek Burj and the natural water drain near one of the banks of Sabarmati river protected sites in May 1989. [ 3 ] The original steel bridge was narrow and not suited for heavy motorized traffic and so it was closed in 1997.