From the December 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. In 1949, the Calico Museum of Textiles, in the Calico Mills compound, was the first modernist building in Ahmedabad, the centre of textile production in Gujarat that was known in the 19th century as the ‘Manchester of India’. It was designed by the intensely private architect Gira Sarabhai (1923–2021)
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