Crossword-Solution: AHMEDABAD 9 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 18

From Ahmedabad, a city from which it was imported to Europe.] (Zo”l.) The strawberry finch, a small Indian song bird (Estrelda amandava), commonly caged and kept for fighting.

David Anderson, after authorizing him to restore _all_ that we had conquered during the war, expressly "_excepted_ Ahmedabad, and the territory conquered for Futty Sing Gwicowar." That, nevertheless, the said Hastings, in the peace concluded by him, has yielded to every one of the conditions reprobated in the preceding declarations as _ignominious_ and incompatible with public faith.

Whether Ahmedabad, which is still the modern capital of Gujerat and ranks only second to its neighbour, Bombay, as a centre of the Indian cotton industry, occupies or not the exact site of the ancient Karn[=a]vati, Gujerat was a stronghold of Indian culture long before the Mahomedan invasions.

Firishta described Ahmedabad as, in his day, "the handsomest city in Hindustan and perhaps in the world," and very few Indian cities contain so many beautiful buildings as those with which Ahmedabad was endowed in the course of a few decades by its Ahmed Shahi rulers.

Nowhere better than at Ahmedabad can the various stages be followed through which this adaptation of a purely Hindu style to Mahomedan purposes has passed.