Sultans's Dream; Commercial Landscape of Mandvi ni Pol

Ankita Anupurva

HT4002

Sultana's Dream: It was an icebreaker exercise in which one had to give their own visual/graphical interpretation of the text of Sultana's Dream as seen in the area in and around Jama Masjid, Ahmedabad.
Place and Stories - Transformation of the Commercial Landscape of the Main Street of Mandvi ni Pol: Mandvi ni Pol, being the largest pol in Ahmedabad with over 30 pols within it, has a very prominent specialised utensil market. The transformation of the market on the main street over the last 75 years had been studied.

Report Content

Cover page showing the illustrations from the two projects covered during the semester.

The eight images with their description which was used for the final illustration.

The final illustration done on an A0 sheet with the interpretation being that of a nightmare.

A map showing the location of shops on the main street of Mandvi ni Pol, along with an excerpt of the introduction of the final narrative.

Map of Mandvi ni Pol showing Shop Clustering on the Main Street with elevations of a few typical shop clusters.

Map of Mandvi ni Pol showing different Shop Types, with photographs of individual shop types, namely, service shops, vendors, utensils and houseware sale (wholesale and retail), food and provision stores.

Map of Mandvi ni Pol showing different Shop Types, with photographs of individual shop types, namely, scrap metal shops, kitchenware repairing services, jewellery and jewellery making shops and godowns.

Map of Main Street of Mandvi ni Pol showing the Current Age of Shops (based on Oral Histories taken from the locals).

Typological Maps of the Main Street of Mandvi ni Pol at tentatively at various points in time (based on Oral Histories).