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Exterior view of The House of Mangaldas Girdhardas hotel in the city of Ahmedabad, Gujarat. There is a statue of Mangaldas Girdhardas inside the premises of the hotel. Mangaldas Girdhardas, amongst Ahmedabad's foremost businessmen and philanthropist of the 20th century. He started his career as a store-keeper in a textile mill. Within a decade, he became its owner and soon after, he was over seeing an empire comprising of a clutch of mills and other related businesses. With his increasing influence in the community, he decided to build a new residence for himself and his family in the centre of the city in the year 1924, across from the famous Sidi Sayed Mosque. He died in 1928 and by 1950, his entire family moved to another location, leaving this house vacant. ‘The House of MG’ is a bouti
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