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Gujarat

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Gu·ja·rat  (gj-rät, gj-)
A region of western India bordering on the Arabian Sea. An independent kingdom after 1401, it was annexed by the Mogul Empire in 1572.
Gujarat, Gujerat [ˌgʊdʒəˈrɑːt]
n
1. (Placename) a state of W India: formed in 1960 from the N and W parts of Bombay State; one of India's most industrialized states. Capital: Gandhinagar. Pop.: 50 596 992 (2001). Area: 196 024 sq. km (75 268 sq. miles)
2. (Placename) a region of W India, north of the Narmada River: generally includes the areas north of Bombay city where Gujarati is spoken
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Noun1.Gujarat - a region of western India to the north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken
Gujerat
Bharat, India, Republic of India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947
2.Gujarat - an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay
Gujerat
Bharat, India, Republic of India - a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947


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191-93) Kohli's discussion of West Bengal in Democracy and Discontent (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), but doesn't address his comparisons of how political institutions and economic development affect outcomes in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, as well as Bihar and Karnataka.
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Migrant salt workers, known as Agarias, carry bundles of firewood over the crackedmud bed of a dried-up sea in the Indian state of Gujarat.
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Father Cedric Prakash, director of the Province Office for Integral Social Development (POISD) of the Gujarat Jesuits and also the Center for Human Rights, Justice and Peace, discussed the current situation of ethnic minorities in India's Gujarat province at American University, in Washington, DC.
Growing oppression in Gujarat by Horton, Matt / Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
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