COMMUNITIES The walled city of Ahmedabad was divided into pols. In each of the pols, people from the same community practicing the same occupation came together to live and practice their business there. As the time passed, the pols commercialised and people moved out of the pols. The communities in which there were still a few families who lived in the pols and practiced their ancestral businesses were chosen. Along with my fellow intern, for the communities we covered seven stories : Kansara Ni Pol, Flower Market, Vegetable Market, Rogan Printing, Mojari Making, Silver Jewellery and Ratan Pol. For our research of communities, Manish Bhai (Purchase Manager) helped us with the contacts which became easier for us to find them. We used to go on our research according to the convenient time they allotted us. Our entire research and documentation had been back and fourth. After completing few researches we used to get feedback from our curator or Abhay Sir and then we used to visit the site again to complete the gaps.
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