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A guide to the Gujarati language over 15 sessions with a focus on commonly used words and phrases. This guide for English speakers is the ideal way to learn core words and phrases in the Gujarati language which is estimated to be spoken by over 60 million people globally, with a focus on the Gujarat province of India and is one of India's official languages. The audio course builds progressively starting with simple greetings, numbers and colors and building to full sentences and expressions by the end of the course.

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In 2010, just as the Indian government was stepping up its counterinsurgency operations in the country's Naxal-affected areas, Alpa Shah set out on a seven-night march with a guerrilla platoon across 250 kilometres of the same territory. An anthropology professor, she wanted to understand why, against the backdrop of a shiny new India, the country's poor had shunned the world's largest democracy and united with revolutionary ideologues.