દેશી રાજમાં બહારથી સુધારા ને અંદરથી અંધેર.

dēśī rājamāṁ bahārathī sudhārā nē aṁdarathī aṁdhēra.

Literally: In native rule, reforms on the outside and chaos on the inside.
What it means: Describes a government that maintains a facade of progress while failing internally.

કહેવત સમુદાય (Kahevat Samuday) · read from the scan by machine — the Gujarati itself is unchecked · English is machine-made and nobody has checked it yet

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