Abstract
Ahmedabad, founded by Sultan Ahmed Shah in 1411, is the commercial capital of Gujarat and home to pharmaceuticals, construction and textiles industries. It was also known as Manchester of the East because of the thriving textile industries. Underneath this economic growth story lies a city that has been affected by several instances of communal violence since 1947. Post-independence, the city has recorded four major events of communal violence: in 1969, 1985, 1991 and 2002 ( Ministry of Home Affairs, GoI, 2007 , p. 49). As migration ensued as a result of repeated instances of communal violence, Ahmedabad came to acquire the characteristics of a segregated city with a distinct Muslim Ghetto-Juhapura. This article focuses on the increasing ghettoisation of the city and the legal provisions of the state, which have also contributed to the process of segregation.
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