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Ahmadabad was founded in the reign of Ahmed Shah in 1412, and came under the control of the East India Company in 1818. In 1930 Mahatma Gandhi marched to the sea from here to protest against the government salt monopoly; the city has remained a centre for Indian nationalism. The city is home to Gujarat University (1949) and the Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Institute for Indological Research. Gandhi's ashram (religious retreat) was founded in 1915, and lies in the suburb of Sabarmati.