Assertion (A): Ahmedabad is the largest centre of cotton textile industry in India.
Reason (R): Ahmedabad is located in a major cotton growing region of India, so it has no problem of raw materials.
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Assertion (A): Ahmedabad is the largest centre of cotton textile industry in India.
Reason (R): Ahmedabad is located in a major cotton growing region of India, so it has no problem of raw materials.
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Correct — (d) (A) is false but (R) is true. Ahmedabad is a leading cotton-textile city (the 'Manchester of India'), but the LARGEST centre of the cotton textile industry in India is Mumbai (Maharashtra), so Assertion (A) is false. Reason (R) stands on its own merit: Gujarat's black (regur) cotton soil makes it a major cotton-growing belt, so Ahmedabad genuinely enjoys easy access to raw cotton — (R) is true.

Why the other options are wrong — (a) Requires (A) to be true, but Ahmedabad is not the largest cotton-textile centre — Mumbai is. So (A) is false and this option fails.  (b) Again treats (A) as true; the 'largest centre' claim is false, so this cannot be correct.  (c) Reverses the truth values. (R) — that Gujarat is a cotton-growing region giving Ahmedabad raw-material access — is actually true, and (A) is the false statement.

Concept: India's cotton textile industry clustered first where power, port, capital and market coincided. Mumbai was the birthplace and remains the largest centre ('Cottonopolis of India'), with Ahmedabad the second-largest ('Manchester of India'). Raw-material proximity helps but is not the decisive locating factor for a weight-non-losing industry like textiles.

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