As for the characters who are activists in the novel, I was an activist myself, briefly, in India in the early 2000s — part of a group that wished to educate people about the anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat in early 2002. (bookbrowse.com)
Introduction of the vaccine, which contains a killed mycobacterium — a distant relative of the leprosy organism — began early last month in the state of Gujarat in western India, and it will soon be deployed in Bihar state, in the east. (science.sciencemag.org)
Shortly after his time, Nur al - din al - Raniri, a scholar from Gujarat in India, succeeded in persuading the following sultan to consent to the persecution of teachers of heretical mysticism. (religion-online.org)