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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.
BBC: India sees jump in 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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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.
ECONOMIST: Cotton exports
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Over 3, 000 soldiers were sent to the western state of Gujarat, in India , in an effort to prevent widespread violence after suspected Islamic militants killed over 30 people in a Hindu temple.
ECONOMIST: Politics this week | The
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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.
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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.
BBC: Writer says Gandhi book ban 'shameful'
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The UK's high commissioner in India has met Narendra Modi, the chief minister of Gujarat state, ending a 10-year boycott of the controversial leader.
BBC: Narendra Modi: UK high commissioner meets Gujarat chief
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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.
BBC: Gujarat's Asiatic lions must be shared - Indian court
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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.
BBC: Writer says Gandhi book ban 'shameful'