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Does the world need a page book about one people within the Indian Union? Considering that Gujaratis number 65 to 70 million, you could argue that they deserve as much attention as, say, the French. Indeed, Ted Zeldin’s “The History of French Passions” only covers the period in twice as many pages. Western readers accept the availability of over current books on French history, while having access to less than 20 on the history of India in its entirety, and only a couple of titles covering Bengal or, say, Tamil Nadu.  The challenge author Salil Tripathi faces is to justify his exhaustive survey of the Gujaratis, a topic not hallowed in historiography in the way that the French are.

The first task Tripathi executes is to define who the Gujuratis are, a people living both in the state of Gujarat as well as Maharashtra, and also spread all over the world.  While coastal Gujarat has a distinctive identity dating back centuries, and was a flourishing sultanate before its absorption into

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