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Gujarati cuisine
Gujarati cuisine: the predominantly vegetarian food of Gujarat, India, known for its sweet-sour-salty flavor balance, Jain influence, the thali meal structure, farsan snacks like dhokla and thepla, and regional styles from Kathiawadi to Kutchi.
Gujarati essay
The Gujarati essay, called nibandh (નિબંધ), is a prose genre of Gujarati literature presenting thoughts or argument free of story or verse; Narmad wrote the first in 1850.
Gujarati folk literature
Gujarati folk literature (લોકસાહિત્ય, loksahitya) is the orally transmitted literature of Gujarat, passed on mouth to mouth since ancient times in songs, tales, proverbs, lullabies, and riddles.
Gujarati ghazal
The Gujarati ghazal (ગુજરાતી ગઝલ) is the ghazal, a lyric form of rhymed couplets, composed in Gujarati, adapted from Persian and Urdu models beginning in the nineteenth century.
Gujarati historical novel
The Gujarati historical novel is a form of Gujarati fiction that places invented characters and love stories in documented events of Gujarat's past, beginning with Karan Ghelo (1866).
Gujarati language
Gujarati (ગુજરાતી), a major Indo-Aryan language of Gujarat, India, with over 50 million speakers and a worldwide diaspora. Written in a Devanagari-derived abugida lacking the top line; mother tongue of Mahatma Gandhi.
Gujarati literary criticism
Gujarati literary criticism, known in Gujarati as samiksha (સમીક્ષા), is critical scholarship on Gujarati literature, practiced from the nineteenth century and rooted in pre-colonial traditions.
Gujarati Muslims
Gujarati Muslims, Muslims of Gujarat state in western India, including Bohra, Khoja, and Memon trading castes; about 9-10% of the state population, largely urban, marked by the 2002 violence and Sachar Committee findings.
Gujarati novel
The Gujarati novel (નવલકથા, navalakathā) is the long prose-fiction form in the Gujarati language, which began with Nandshankar Mehta's Karan Ghelo in 1866 and developed through reformist, historical, and modernist phases.
Gujarati novel tradition
The Gujarati novel tradition is the body of long-form prose fiction in the Gujarati language, beginning with Nandshankar Mehta's historical romance Karan Ghelo in 1866.
Gujarati one-act play
The Gujarati one-act play, or ekanki, is a one-act dramatic form in Gujarati that grew out of Parsi theater and became a major literary genre by the 1930s and 1940s.
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો)
Gujarati people (ગુજરાતી લોકો) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Gujarat, western India, speakers of Gujarati, named after the Gurjar settlers of the 5th century CE, with a major trading diaspora in East Africa, Britain, and North America.
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad
Gujarati Sahitya Parishad (ગુજરાતી સાહિત્ય પરિષદ) is a literary and cultural institution in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, founded in 1905 to promote the Gujarati language, literature, and culture.
Gujarati short story
The Gujarati short story (ટૂંકી વાર્તા, also varta) is the modern short-fiction genre of Gujarati literature, which took shape between 1895 and 1918 and developed through Gandhian, modernist, Dalit, and feminist phases.
Gujarati social reform novel
The Gujarati social reform novel is a Gujarati-language novel written to expose social evils, arising in the late nineteenth century and addressing child marriage, widow remarriage, and untouchability.
Gujarati theatre
Gujarati theatre is the stage drama tradition of the Gujarati language in western India, from the folk form Bhavai to professional companies founded in Bombay from 1878 onward.
Gujarati travelogue
A Gujarati travelogue is a written account of travel composed in the Gujarati language, a genre that emerged in western India in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Guji Zone
Guji Zone, an administrative zone of Oromia Regional State in southern Ethiopia, capital Nagelle, separated from Borana zone in 2002; Guji Oromo agro-pastoralists, coffee and gold, recurrent border conflict and displacement.
Gujjar Singh Bhangi
Gujjar Singh Bhangi (ਗੁੱਜਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੰਗੀ) was an 18th-century Sikh chief of the Bhangi misl who helped capture Lahore from the Afghans in 1765 and made Gujrat his capital.
Gujranwala (گوجرانوالہ)
Gujranwala (گوجرانوالہ) is an industrial city in northeastern Punjab, Pakistan, 5th largest in the province, on the Grand Trunk Road between Chenab and Ravi. Former Sikh Empire capital, major manufacturing hub with exports over USD 2.5 billion.
Gujrānwāla District
Gujranwala District (گوجرانوالہ), Punjab, Pakistan; headquarters Gujranwala city. Census 2023 population 5,959,750, 60.30% urban; four tehsils; formed 1851-52 after Punjab's 1849 annexation; major light-engineering industrial hub.
Gujrat
Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan: district headquarters city near the Chenab, refounded by Akbar as Gujar Akbarabad; 574,240 residents (2023 census); furniture, fan, and pottery manufacturing hub.
Gujrāt District
Gujrat District (Punjab, Pakistan), district in the Chaj Doab between Chenab and Jhelum rivers, headquarters Gujrat city; 3,219,375 people (2023 census), 3,192 sq km, three tehsils, known for fan and furniture industries.
Gukanshō
The Gukanshō (愚管抄, "Jottings of a Fool") is a seven-scroll interpretive history of Japan written by the Tendai abbot Jien around 1220, explaining politics through Buddhist decline and dōri.
Gukesh D
Gukesh D (Dommaraju Gukesh, born 2006, Chennai) is an Indian grandmaster and 18th World Chess Champion, the youngest ever, having beaten Ding Liren 7.5–6.5 in Singapore in December 2024 after winning the 2024 Candidates.
Gukhak
Gukhak (국학) was the royal Confucian academy of the Silla kingdom, founded by King Sinmun in 682 to train government officials versed in the Confucian classics.
Gukjagam
The Gukjagam (국자감) was the highest state educational institution of the Goryeo dynasty, founded in the capital Gaegyeong by King Seongjong in 992 and renamed Seonggyungwan in 1362.
Gukjo Oryeui
Gukjo Oryeui (국조오례의, 國朝五禮儀), the Five Rites of the State, is the basic ritual code of the Joseon dynasty, completed in 1474 and the model for state ceremony for about three centuries.
Gukmun movement
The Gukmun movement (국문운동) was a late 19th- and early 20th-century Korean language reform movement that promoted hangul and Korean in place of Literary Sinitic.
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi, or Operation Gukurahundi, was a campaign of state violence in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from 1982 to 1987, killing thousands of Ndebele civilians.