GUJARAT
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Districts: 33
Capital: Gandhinagar
Languages: Gujarati, Kutchi
Gujarat, the seventh largest state in India, located in the western part of India with a coastline of 1600 km (longest in
India). It is the tenth most popular state in the country for tourists with annual footfall of 18.9 million tourists.
Gujarat offers scenic beauty from Great Rann of Kutch to the hills of Saputara. Gujarat is the sole home of the pure
Asiatic lions and is considered to be one of the most important protected areas in Asia. Ancient Dholavira, archaeological
site in Kutch District and Lothal, archaeological site in Ahmedabad district contains ruins of ancient Indus Valley
Civilization city, ruins of Dholavira is one of the largest Harappan archaeological sites.
The state encompasses some sites of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, such as Lothal and Dholavira. Lothal is
believed to be one of the world's first seaports. Gujarat's coastal cities, chiefly Bharuch and Khambhat, served as
ports and trading centres in the Maurya and Gupta empires, and during the succession of royal Saka dynasties from the
Western Satraps era.
Gujarat has a variety of museums on different genres that are run by the state's Department of Museums located at the
principal state museum, Baroda Museum & Picture Gallery in Vadodara, which is also the location of the Maharaja Fateh
Singh Museum. The Kirti Mandir, Porbandar, Sabarmati Ashram, and Kaba Gandhi No Delo are museums related to Mahatma Gandhi,
the former being the place of his birth and the latter two where he lived in his lifetime. Kaba Gandhi No Delo in Rajkot
exhibits part of a rare collection of photographs relating to the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Sabarmati Ashram is the place
where Gandhi initiated the Dandi March. On 12 March 1930 he vowed that he would not return to the Ashram until India won
independence.
The Maharaja Fateh Singh Museum is housed within Lakshmi Vilas Palace, the residence of the erswhile Maharajas, located in Vadodara.
The Calico Museum of Textiles is managed by the Sarabhai Foundation and is one of the most popular tourist spots in Ahmedabad.
The Lakhota Museum at Jamnagar is a palace transformed into museum, which was residence of the Jadeja Rajputs.
The collection of the museum includes artefacts spanning from 9th to 18th centuries, pottery from medieval villages
nearby and the skeleton of a whale.
Other well known museums in the state include the Kutch Museum in Bhuj, which is the oldest museum in Gujarat founded in
1877, the Watson Museum of human history and culture in Rajkot, Gujarat Science City and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
National Memorial in Ahmedabad.
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