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It is important to understand the role of Surat as a centre of international trade in order to understand its architecture. The market in coffee, cotton, textile cloths and other goods generated fantastic wealth. Merchants from many nations were drawn to the city. Surat was divided into five…
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Surat, since its inception, has been recognised as a cosmopolitan city with a multitude of overlays that can be observed in the way the city evolved and the manner in which its architecture transformed with time. Gopipura, being the innermost and oldest core of the walled city, stands in glory…
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As a child, your relationship with a city is confined to the area with which you share a sense of belonging and the one you are familiar with—your family, your pet, your school, the people whom you meet every day, and your possessions. One walks, runs, drives through the same spaces time and…
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