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The term Gujarati Muslim is usually used to signify an Indian Muslim from the state of Gujarat on the western coast of India. Most Gujarati Muslims have the Gujarati language as their mother tongue, but some communities have Urdu as their mother tongue. [4] The majority of Gujarati Muslims are Sunni, with a minority of Shia groups.
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
His poem, Jya Jya Vase Ek Gujarati, Tya Tya Sadakal Gujarat (Wherever a Gujarati resides, there forever is Gujarat) depicts Gujarati ethnic pride and is widely popular in Gujarat. [ 132 ] Swaminarayan paramhanso, like Bramhanand, Premanand, contributed to Gujarati language literature with prose like Vachanamrut and poetry in the form of bhajans .
This articles contains a list Scheduled Caste communities and their population according to the 2011 Census of India in the state of Gujarat. [1] They constitutes the population of 40,74,447 or 6.74% of total population of the state. The Government of Gujarat recognises 35 castes under the category. [2]
The population of Gujarat was 60,439,692 (31,491,260 males and 28,948,432 females) according to the 2011 census data. [1] The population density is 308 persons per square kilometer (800 persons/sq mi), lower than other Indian states.
Gujarat is inhabited by people belonging to varied castes, religions, and communities. Due to that, a number of varied languages are spoken in the state. The official language of the state is Gujarati. It is an Indo-Aryan language derived from Sanskrit. Gujarati is the 26th-most widely spoken language in the world.
The Bhavsar community in Gujarat speak Gujarati, [7] those in Maharashtra speak Marathi and those in Rajasthan speak a Rajasthani dialect, [8] and the rest speak Hindi, apart from the local language but the Gujarati speaking and Marathi speaking Bhavsars were traditionally endogamous.
The following is a list of the largest (in area) and most populous cities in Gujarat, India as per the 2011 census. There are 31 cities in Gujarat with a population over 100,000. There are 31 cities in Gujarat with a population over 100,000.