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CHAPTER 1 THE DENOTATION OF GUJARAT' AND ITS SCOPE
Gujarat, which was in abeyance as a political or administrative unit for a few centuries past, has recently re-emerged as a separate state in the union of India.
· The name Gujarat' seems to have applied to this region about the beginning of the Solanki period. In earlier times Gujarat had hardly received any common name denoting the entire region. Parts of Gujarat were known by different names like Aparta, Lāța and Surāṣtra in earlier times. In this work the term Gujarat' is therefore used for convenience sake even for the earlier ages prior to the actual application of the current name to this region.
The boundaries of Gujarat fluctuated from time to time, and its political and cultural extent included a number of districts that are put in adjoining states at present.
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