Thomas Stephens was the first Englishman to reach India, at least by sea route. He sailed for India on a Portuguese ship as a Jesuit missionary on 4th April 1579 and landed at Goa six months later, on 24th october.
Mahagujarat movement or Mahagujarat Andolan was based around the demand of creation of separate state of Gujarat for Gujarati-speaking people from the Bombay state in 1956. The result of this movement was creation of two states on linguistic basis viz. Gujarat and Maharashtra. Indulal Yagnik was leader of this movement.