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12 unusual facts about Gujarati people


BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir London

A cultural centre, known as the BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Haveli, designed in traditional Gujarati haveli architecture, housing an assembly hall, gymnasium, bookshop, and offices.

Batata vada

Gujarati people eat Bataka Vada (બટાકા વડા) with Gujarati style Fruit Salad.

Buddha-nature

A denotation of note is the garba dence) of the Gujarati: where a spiritual circle dance is performed around a light or candle placed at the centre, bindu.

Celia de Fréine

De Fréine has translated many European poets into Irish and English, including: Sreko Kosovel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Xohana Torres, Itxaro Borda, Irina Alekseyeva, and Catullus, as well as the Chinese poet Shi Tao and the Gujarati poets, Ramesh Parekh, Pranjivan Mehta, Dileep Jhaveri, Nitin Mehta, Hemant Dhorada, and Kamal Vora.

Cutchi-Swahili

It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of Tanganyika and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Asian community.

Gujarati grammar

The grammar of the Gujarati language is the study of the word order, case marking, verb conjugation, and other morphological and syntactic structures of the Gujarati language, an Indo-Aryan language native to the Indian state of Gujarat and spoken by the Gujarati people.

Krutika Desai Khan

She has also acted in Pallavi Bani Parvati and To Karo Shree Ganesh, both Gujarati plays.

Manilal C. Parekh

Manilal Chhotalal Parekh (1885-1967), a Gujurati convert to Anglican church, was an Indian Christian theologian, and the founder of Hindu Church of Christ—free from Western influence - opposing Western and institutional nature of Christianity in India.

Najan Ward

Ward was born with the name Nagajan Chano Modhwadia in Leicester, England to a father who worked as a welder and a mother who worked as an over locker at a local textile firm; both of his parents are Hindu Mer Gujarati immigrants from India.

Pennaach

Pennaach performances have included a traditional diya (candle) dance that highlights three classical dance styles (Bharathanatyam, Kathak and Odissi); lavni, a style which is typical to coastal fishing communities of western India; Giddha, an upbeat Punjabi folk dance; Garba, a popular Gujarati folk dance, as well as modern items such as Madonna's Om Shanti and various Hindi movie dances.

Plashet School

The majority of the students come from an Asian background, such as Bengalis Gujaratis and Pakistanis, as well as people coming from a Middle Eastern backgrounds too, such as Yemenies, Saudi Arabian and Lebanese.

Shankarpali

It is a popular snack amongst the Gujarati & maharashrian community in India, where it is known as "shakarpara".


Armenian community of Dhaka

In the silk market, there are indications that the Armenians were dominant buyers, along with Gujaratis and merchants from Delhi, Agra and Benares.

Bamna

It is well known as the village of great poet and gem of Gujarat Umashankar Joshi, a Gujarati literate, once a President of Gujarati Sahitya Parishad.

C. D. Deshmukh

The Central Government with Jawaharlal Nehru as the Prime Minister made, however, an exception by newly forming the State of Bombay which comprised the neighbouring Gujarati and overwhelmingly Marathi regions, the City of Mumbai, the nation's prime economic center, being made the new state's capital.

Chandani Padva

Chandani Padva or Chandi Padvo is an occasion when Surtis (Gujarati people from Surat) enjoy a popular local variety of sweet Ghari.

Chota Char Dham

Buoyed by "religious tourism" and by the rise of a conservative Hindu population compelled by sites that speak to the existence of an all-India Hindu culture, the Chota Char Dham has become an important destination for pilgrims from throughout South Asia and the diaspora, particularly Bengalis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Marathis, Gujaratis, Delhites and people from Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarakhand.

Culture of Chennai

A regional hub since British times, other prominent communities are the Anglo Indian, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Marwari communities and people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.

Dabhoi

Dabhoi is the place were the great Gujarati poet, Dayaram, composer of many Garbis (devotional songs) and a devotee of Ranchhodraiji of Dakor took his last breath.

Nisha Patel-Nasri

Nisha Patel-Nasri was a 29-year-old Luton-born Hindu Gujarati British Indian of the Patel caste who grew up in London and ran a hairdressing business near her home in Wembley.