1. [n]  an industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay
2. [n]  a region of western India north of Bombay (bordering the Arabian Sea) where Gujarati is spoken

Gujarat
The events at Godhra and the ensuing communal carnage in Gujarat, like the Babri Masjid demolition and the 1984 massacres, constitute an ugly chapter of our contemporary history. For the sheer brutality, persistence and widespread nature of the violence, especially against women and children, the complicity of the State, the ghettoization of communities, and the indifference of civil society, Gujarat has surpassed anything we have experienced in recent times. That this happened in one of India's must 'well off' and 'progressive' states, the home of the Mahatma, is all the more alarming.

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