ABSTRACT
Ahmedabad is situated on the banks of the river Sabarmati, some three hundred miles north of Bombay. It is in the middle of a wide flat plain only a few feet above sea level and is one of the chief cities of the Bombay state. The climate is hot and, except during the monsoon, dry. Day temperatures range between 80 and 118 degrees Fahrenheit and night temperatures between 40 and 85 degrees, depending upon the season of the year. The cool season which starts in November and lasts until February is delightful—warm days and cool nights with little or no rain. After the beginning of February the weather gets slowly hotter and more humid until the monsoon breaks in June or July. During the monsoon, and immediately after, the countryside is a rich and vivid green, but at other times of the year it is brown, dried up, and dusty.
