To a degree, Gujarat state, led by the Hinduist BJP party, has taken the lead.
In 2011 Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, visited China to drum up investment.
Parekh, who hailed from Gujarat state, lived in Mumbai where he studied law prior to his business career.
Modi was born in a Jain family from Palanpur, a town in Gujarat state noted for its diamond merchants.
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Mr. Modi has presided over an economic boom in his region as chief minister of India's western Gujarat state, and is popular with investors.
Mumbai is located in Maharashtra state, which borders Gujarat state.
James Murdoch, the CEO of News Corp who oversees STAR TV in Asia, has been in the news talking media strategy with top officials in Gujarat state this week.
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But that hope was belied as the brothers remained cool to each other until December 2011 when they were photographed at a family reunion in their ancestral home in Gujarat state in western India.
Recalling the gruesome and apparently state-sanctioned violence against Muslims in India's Gujarat state in 2002, Nussbaum cast the jihadists as nothing more than victims of a Hindu terror state which has been victimizing Muslims for no reason since the 1930s.
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But he warned religious violence which has claimed more than 850 lives since February in the western state of Gujarat, India's second-most industrialised state, could affect future foreign investment.
India's Supreme Court has ordered the western state of Gujarat to share some of its endangered lions with the neighbouring state of Madhya Pradesh.
Narendra Modi, the powerful chief minister of Gujarat, a state in west India, wrote to the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, that the ban was anti-farmer.
Gujarat's state assembly voted unanimously on Wednesday to ban Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India with immediate effect, even though it has not yet been released in India and few people will have read it.
Ltd. in the western state of Gujarat, said his business was hit as several government-owned banks were shut.
His dream now is to go to his ancestral home in Kaparwaj, in the western state of Gujarat.
The artists have condemned last week's arrest of a post-graduate student from a university campus in the state of Gujarat.
Yet today it is notable for derelict factories and its trade selling grog to Gujarat, a dry state next door.
Tata fled to a friendlier state, Gujarat, taking jobs, but voters cheered.
He grew up in Mumbai in a family of traders hailing from Surendranagar, a cotton hub in the neighboring state of Gujarat.
Concern has increased since the recent outbreak of violence in the western state of Gujarat, which left more than 700 people dead.
Even before this year's troubles, Gujarat was becoming a state of ghettos.
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The author of a book on Mahatma Gandhi has said it is "shameful" that it has been banned in India's western state of Gujarat.
Last week, the state of Gujarat brought in a new law making the illegal manufacture and sale of toxic alcohol there punishable by death.
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None of this is to dismiss Mr. Modi's genuine popularity, even if it is yet to translate into votes outside his home state of Gujarat.
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But further progress may have to await yet another election, in the state of Gujarat, where Hindu mobs killed more than 1, 000 Muslims earlier this year.
Indian authorities say they have foiled an attempt by inmates accused of deadly bombings to tunnel their way out of a jail in the western state of Gujarat.
But tolerance can break down, as happened recently in the western state of Gujarat: to avenge the burning of 58 Hindu pilgrims by a Muslim mob, Hindus ran riot.
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