he city of Ahmedabad is endowed with a rich architectural heritage that is vital to the local identity and continuity of the place. Along with the foremost heritage Indo-Islamic monuments of the 15th to 17th centuries, there are potential heritage precincts in the form of the Pols, the traditional residential clusters of the medieval period, which makes Ahmedabad exceptional. Combining these all, the historic walled city of Ahmedabad has it all to be the first city in India to be inscribed ... The historic city of Ahmedabad was founded in the surge of Islamic conquests that had swept through India. It was established in 1411 AD by a noble, Ahmed Shah, who had rebelled against his overlords in Delhi. The story of Ahmedabad begins in the eleventh century with King Karandev - 1, the Solanki Ruler, who established a city called Karnavati on the banks of the Sabarmati. At the end of the thirteenth century, Gujarat was conquered by the Sultanate of Delhi and Sultan Ahmed Shah founded Ahmedabad in 1411 on an open and spacious plain to the east of Sabarmati, comprising what is now known as the Bhadra Fort. In 1487, Mahmud Begada, the grandson of Ahmed Shah, fortified the city with a 10-km outer ... Ahmedabad, India is the largest city in the state of Gujarat (there are 29 states, Gujarat is the westernmost one). The city was the capital of the state before 1970 and is now the administrative center of Ahmedabad district. It is the seventh largest agglomeration in India, located at the banks of the river Sabarmati and is also called Amdavad.
