Godhra is a town and originally the name came from gou which means "cow" and dhara which has two meanings: one in Sanskrit which means "hold" or "land" and the other in Hindi which means "flow". So, identically it means The Land of the Cow, a municipality in Panchmahal district in Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Panchmahal district. Godhra is also one of the religious places in the India which has four bethaks in the main Jain Temple is that of Tirthankar Bhagawan Shantinath. Godhra is widely infamous in India and internationally for being the starting point of the 2002 Gujarat violence. Statewide communal riots between...
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