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Narenda Modi's triumph for the BJP (Indian People's Party) during the regional elections of 2007 strengthened the hold of Hindu nationalism in this state. As long as Modi & the local Congress leaders occupied front stage, the election campaign was dominated by economic development & governance issues, given that Congress hesitated to attack Modi over the anti-Muslim pogroms of 2002. However, the campaign tours of national Congress leaders such as Sonia Gandhi brought this issue back to the fore, to the delight of Modi who reacted by posing as defender of law & order it in the face of the Muslim threat. Modi's Hindu national hostility is, however, merely his most salient trait. It is blended with a form of high-tech populism, a strong personality cult, a definite authoritarianism & constant praise for managerial governance. This combination has rallied around Modi the business world & the new middle class, whose anti-parliamentarianism is tending to spread elsewhere in India. The Modi phenomenon -- an atypical within the BJP where individuals usually take a back seat to organizations -- could well hail a transformation in the Hindu nationalist movement, even in Indian politics. Adapted from the source document.

Dilavard Houssen memaparkan asal dan beberapa aspek sosial dan agama masyarakat Khoja dari Madagaskar. Mereka berasaldari daerah Gujarat (India) yang telah merantau ke Madagaskar dengan jalan me- mutar melalui Afrika Timur sejak pertengahan abad ke XIX. Penduduk Khoja yang berjumlah 2.600 orang itu adalah pemeluk agama Islam aliran shi'ah. Mereka merupakan masyarakat yang menyendiri tetapi yang cenderung mengikuti perkembangan moderen.

Christophe Jaffrelot — Violence between Hindus and Moslems in Gujarati (Inda) in 2002 : State riots, pogroms and anti-jihad reactions
Riots between Hindus and Moslems increasingly hinge on political determinants. The violence of 2002 in Gujarati is however unique, due to the level of implication of political actors and to the government of that particular State. Such a political instrumentation has been facilitated by Islamic attacks organised in India since december 2001, thus fuelling a desire for reprisals within the Hindu majority. The propaganda of the nationalist Hindu movement has also created conditions that unleash violence even among the aborigine populations, due to the thickening of militant networks of the movement in the current years.