The city of Ahmedabad is known as the Manchester of India.
Being the most populous city in Gujarat, Ahmedabad is also a hub of cotton industries and textile industry.It resembles Manchester City in England owing to its rich industrial heritage.
The city of Ahmedabad is located on the banks of the Sabarmati river, whereas Manchester city is on the banks of river Mersey.
Ahmedabad has developed as a centre of the cotton industry with the availability of raw cotton, skilled and unskilled labour, and economic support from rich businessmen.
Ahmedabad has earned the title because of its high-quality textiles. The temperature of Manchester and Ahmedabad are also favourable for the textile industry to sustain.
Ever since the huge success of textile mills in Ahmedabad, they started exporting to different parts of India. The name “Manchester of India” was supposedly given by two top industrialists of India, Ambalal Sarabhai and Kasturbhai Lalbhai.
The city ‘Karnavati’ was renamed as ‘Ahmedabad ‘by the Mughal Sultan, Ahmed Shah in 1411.
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