Gujarat

Gujarat, or GUZERAT, the northern maritime province of Bombay, has, in the narrower sense, an area of 10,296 sq. m., and a pop. (1891) of 3,098,197. In its widest sense on the other hand (with Kathiawar) it has an area of over 70,000 sq. m., and a pop. of 10,000,000. Within the wider limits lie the British districts of Surat, Broach, Kaira, Panch Mahals, and Ahmadabad, the territories of the Gaekwar of Baroda (q.v.), and numerous petty native states. Of these last 180 are on the peninsula of Kathiawar, which projects into the Arabian Sea to the north of the Gulf of Cambay. Gujarati is one of the seven main Aryan vernacular languages of India (q.v.). See also GUJRAT.