When is gujarat day

It is said that even the Greeks knew about Gujarat. Gujarat was officially formed in the year after the idea for the state of Gujarat surfaced in the year in a magazine called Kumar. Writer and freedom fighter KM Munshi first suggested a concept called Mahagujarat.

The suggestion was made in a meeting during the Gujarat Sahitya Sabha which was held in Karachi in the year Gujarat played a major role in the businesses of Karachi and Mumbai during the British Raj. About 18, villages of the state have been integrated with the electrical grid for hours electric supply. The farms too are electrified in the state with the Jyotigra, Yojana. Gujarat also played a significant role in the commerce of Mumbai and Karachi during the British Raj.

The primary agricultural products of the state include groundnuts, sugarcane, cotton and milk products. It is believed that Lord Krishna left Mathura and settled on the west coast of Saurashtra, which later came to be known as Dwarka, the gateway. The state later saw various kingdoms including Mauryas, Guptas, Pratiharas and others. Gujarat witnessed progress and prosperity during the reign of Chalukyas or Solankis.

Gujarat also faced some tough time under the Muslims, Marathas and the British rule. Before Independence, the present territory of Gujarat was used in two parts namely the British and the Princely territories. With the re-organisation of the States, the Union of States of Saurashtra and the Union Territory of Kachchh along with the former British, Gujarat became a part of the biggest bilingual State of Bombay.

The present state of Gujarat was founded on 1 May, It is situated on the west coast of India. Most states were reorganised along the Linguistic line under the States Reorganisation Act This act also consolidated Gujarati and Marathi speaking areas together leading to agitation in both these regions.

A local political movement named Mahagujarat movement demanded a separate state for the Gujarati-speaking people from the bilingual Bombay state of India. And finally, the movement succeeded and Gujarat and Maharashtra State was formed.

A new State Bombay was formed on 1 November, with the enactment of the States Reorganisation Act, comprising the Marathi speaking areas of the erstwhile Bombay State, Vidarbha region of the erstwhile State of Madhya Pradesh, Marathwada region of the erstwhile Hyderabad State and the erstwhile States of Saurashtra and Kutch. Subsequently, on 1 May, , with the enactment of the Bombay Reorganization Act, the former States of Kutch and Saurashtra were taken out from the State of Bombay to form the new State of Gujarat and the State of Bombay was renamed as Maharashtra.