May 01 is celebrated as Gujarat Day since its formation in the year 1960.
Gujarat is a State in Western India,referred to as the Jewel of Western India
Gujarat has an area of 196,024 km2 (75,685 sq mi) with a coastline of 1,600 km (990 mi), most of which lies on the Kathiawar Peninsula, and a population in excess of 60 million
After Indian Independence and the Partition of India in 1947, the new Indian government grouped the former princely states of Gujarat into three larger units; Saurashtra, which included the former princely states on the Kathiawad Peninsula, Kutch, and Bombay State which included the former British districts of Bombay Presidency together with most of Baroda State and the other former princely states of eastern Gujarat.
Bombay state was enlarged to include Kutch, Saurashtra, and parts of Hyderabad State and Madhya Pradesh in central India
Agitation by Gujarati nationalists, the Mahagujarat Movement and Marathi nationalists, the Samyukta Maharashtra for their own states led to the split of Bombay State on linguistic lines; on May 01,1960, it became the new states of Gujarat and Maharashtra
The new state had a mostly Gujarati-speaking north and a Marathi-speaking south
he first capital of Gujarat was Ahmedabad and the capital was moved to Gandhinagar in 1970
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