Įarly European travelers like Ludovico di Varthema (15th century) traveled to Gujarat and wrote on the people of Gujarat. With Muslims in Gujarat, 67 out of 86 communities claim a migrant past. For example, the Audichya Brahmins claim migration from present day Uttar Pradesh. In the state, 124 Hindu communities out of 186 claim a migrant past. In anthropological surveys conducted in India about 60% of the people claim that their community is a migrant to their state or region. Main article: History of Gujarat The king of Cambay (in present-day Gujarat) from "Figurae variae Asiae et Africae," a 16th-century Portuguese manuscript in the Casanatense Library in Rome (Codex Casanatense 1889) In recent decades, larger numbers of Gujaratis have migrated to English-speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States. Diasporas and transnational networks in many of these countries date back to more than a century. All throughout history Gujaratis have earned a reputation as being India's greatest merchants, their direct role in slavery and slave trading in East Africa is skillfully occluded in most writing that commemorated the Gujarati mercantile elite, industrialists and business entrepreneurs and have therefore been at forefront of migrations all over the world, particularly to regions that were part of the British empire such as Fiji, Hong Kong, Malaya, East Africa and South Africa. There are very large Gujarati immigrant communities in other parts of India, most notably in Mumbai, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai, Bangalore and other cities like Kochi. Gujaratis also form a significant part of the populations in the neighboring metropolis of Bombay and union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu, which was a former Portuguese colony. Geographical locations ĭespite significant migration primarily for economic reasons, most Gujaratis in India live in the state of Gujarat in Western India. Many notable independence activists were Gujarati, including Mahatma Gandhi, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Vallabhbhai Patel. Gujaratis in India and the diaspora are prominent entrepreneurs and industrialists and maintain high social capital. While Gujaratis mainly inhabit Gujarat, they have a diaspora worldwide.
They primarily speak Gujarati, an Indo-Aryan language. The Gujarati people or Gujaratis, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group who reside in or can trace their ancestry or heritage to a region of the Indian subcontinent primarily centered in the present-day western Indian state of Gujarat.
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