19 Facts About Gujarati people

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Many notable independence activists were Gujarati people, including Gandhi, Patel, and Jinnah, as well as the current Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi.

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Gujarati people noted that Jainism had a strong presence in Gujarat and opined that Gujaratis were deprived of their kingdom by Mughals because of their kind heartedness.

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The countries with the largest Gujarati people populations are Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States, Canada and many countries in Southern and East Africa.

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4.

Significant Gujarati people communities existed here before 1947 Partition of India.

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5.

Gujarati people Muslims started their trading route between India and Ceylon in the late 1880s.

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6.

Great number of Gujarati people Muslims migrated after the Partition of India in 1947.

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7.

Notable Gujarati people Americans include Sunita Williams, Ami Bera, Reshma Saujani, Sonal Shah, Raj Shah, Rohit Vyas, Bharat Desai, Vyomesh Joshi, Raj Bhavsar Halim Dhanidina, Savan Kotecha, and Hollywood actresses, Sheetal Sheth and Noureen DeWulf.

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8.

Cities with significant Gujarati people populations include Leicester and London boroughs of Harrow, Barnet and Brent.

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9.

Gujarati people Hindus maintain their caste affiliation to some extent with most major castes having their own community association in each population center with significant Gujarati people population such as Leicester and London suburbs.

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10.

Gujarati people exploited pre-existing Indophobia and spread propaganda against Indians involving stereotyping and scapegoating the Indian minority.

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11.

Notable South African Indians of Gujarati people heritage include Marxist freedom fighters such as Ahmed Timol, Yusuf Dadoo, Ahmed Kathrada, Amina Cachalia and Dullah Omar, as well as Ahmed Deedat, Imran Garda and Hashim Amla.

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12.

The Gujarati people language continues to be spoken in Singapore and Malaysia.

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13.

Gujarati people was renamed in 1898 to Star Ferry, which today transports passengers throughout Hong Kong.

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14.

Ardeshar Khabardar, Gujarati people-speaking Parsi who was president of Gujarati people Sahitya Parishad was a nationalist poet.

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15.

Gujarati people language is enriched by the Adhyatmik literature written by the Jain scholar, Shrimad Rajchandra and Pandit Himmatlal Jethalal Shah.

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Gujarati people food has famously been described as "the haute cuisine of vegetarianism" and meals have a subtle balance of sweet, tart and mild hot sensations on the palate.

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Gujarati people cuisine follows the traditional Indian full meal structure of rice, cooked vegetables, lentil dal or curry and roti.

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18.

The different types of flatbreads that a Gujarati people cooks are rotli or chapati, bhakhri, puri, thepla, rotla, dhebara, maal purah, and puran-pohli.

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Gujarati people families celebrate Sharad Purnima by having dinner with doodh-pauva under moonlight.

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