Gujarat

or Gu·je·rat

[ gooj-uh-raht, goo-juh- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a region in W India, N of the Narmada River.
a state in W India, on the Arabian Sea. 75,685 sq. mi. (196,024 sq. km). : Gandhinagar.

Gujarat

/ ˌɡʊdʒəˈrɑːt /

a state of W India: formed in 1960 from the N and W parts of the former 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)
a region of W India, north of the Narmada River: generally includes the areas north of Mumbai city where Gujarati is spoken

A week after “donating” several old shirts, I was in a tiny Gujarat village called Vamka with a relief team.

I've seen fluorescent pants that women in Gujarat who wear only saris stare bemusedly at.

After the 2001 quake in Gujarat, I spent a week working there and losing count of the piles of discarded old clothes.

The BJP and friends have enough that taints them, in the killings in Mumbai in 1992–93 and Gujarat in 2002.

Like now, when the state of Gujarat is gearing up to vote in December.

The Gujarat Senate therefore counted the cost when it refused to bend before the storm.

In Gujarat about half the grain area is under millets or maize in ordinary years.

In Gujarat and the arid plains of the south-east Punjab the renowned herds almost disappeared.

Mahmud, the last of the Tughlak dynasty, being defeated in a battle outside the walls of Delhi, fled into Gujarat.

The Tapti drains about 250 m. of country, and is, in a commercial point of view, the most useful of the Gujarat rivers.

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