The American author of a new biography of the father of independent India, Mahatma Gandhi, has spoken out against the banning of his book in the Indian state of Gujarat, where Gandhi was born.

印度独立运动之父甘地的新传记的作者公开反对甘地的出生地，印度古吉拉特邦禁止他的书籍的行为。

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Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India.

大约在四十年以前，一个社区服务组织就开始在印度西部的古吉拉特邦为人们的眼睛提供服务。

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Almost forty years ago, a community service organization started providing eye care in Gujarat State, in western India.

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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.

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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.

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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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