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Jagdish Khunt, president of the Surat Diamond Association in the western Indian state of Gujarat, said there would be a drop in orders in the short term.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2025
Kotwal sources his stones from Surat city in neighbouring Gujarat state.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2025
Most of the rough diamonds mined in Botswana are shipped to manufacturing hubs like Surat, India, where they are cut and polished into the shiny crystals that greatly increase their value.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
"Gandhi will challenge the conviction order on multiple grounds," his lawyer, Kirit Panwala, told Reuters in Surat city in the western state of Gujarat where the appeal will be heard.
From Reuters ● Apr. 3, 2023
Having passed this river of Ravel, at twenty leagues to the south is a city called Surat, at the mouth of a river.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
There has been a surat delivered to Lakamba.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph
Then there were some more words in which d'Alcacer's attentive ear caught the word "surat."
From The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows by Conrad, Joseph
Regarding the subject of that document— Akan hal surat itu.
From A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir
Tell me out of the old man’s surat where you read so often at night.”
From Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river by Conrad, Joseph
I want you to start at once for the camp, with surat for the Kavitan.
From An Outcast of the Islands by Conrad, Joseph
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