FORTS OF INDIA(Ahmedabad)
FORTS OF INDIA(Ahmedabad)
'A NOBLE city in a high state of prosperity which for the pleasantries of its climate and the display of the choice of production of the whole globe is almost unrivalled.'*тАФAbul Fazel.
In the year 1411 Ahmad Shah succeeded his grandfather Muzaffar Shah as the Sultan of Gujarat. The same year he selected a site in Asaval on Sabar- mati for his capital. He founded there a new city which in honour of four Ahmads himself, his teacher Shaikh Ahmad Khathu and two others, viz. Kazi Ahmad and Malik Ahmad he named Ahmedabad and to it he transferred his capital. Ahmedabad grew into a large city and was well protected with its thick and high walls, many gates, broad avenues, well paved streets and abundant vegetation.