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Which city is known as the Manchester of India?

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Delhi
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Ahmedabad
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Mumbai
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Kolkata
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The correct option is B Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad.
The city of Ahmedabad in the Gujarat state is famously known as the “Manchester City of India”. This name was given to this city by a popular textile center in the Manchester of Great Britain, adhering to the striking similarities of Ahmedabad's prospering cotton textile industries with the ones in Manchester.

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