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	Anjar, India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Anjar is a city and a municipality in Kutch district in the state of Gujarat, India.
		Anjar was a fortified town, before the Earthquake of 26 January 2001 the ruins of the wall could be seen around this town, but after this Earthquake the ruins are near non-existent.
		Anjar is also famous for BHIKHA NI DABELI (Kachchhi Burger), His name is so revered that his fans stretch out all the way to the state of Maharashtra and beyond.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anjar,_India (615 words)

	Anjar - LoveToKnow 1911
		ANJAR, a fortified town of India, and the capital of a district of the same name in the native state of Cutch, in the presidency of Bombay.
		The town and district of Anjar were both ceded to the British in 1816, but in 1822 they were again transferred to the Cutch government in consideration of an annual money payment.
		Subsequently it was discovered that this obligation pressed heavily upon the resources of the native state, and in 1832 the pecuniary equivalent for Anjar, both prospectively and inclusive of the arrears which had accrued to that date, was wholly remitted by the British government.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Anjar (188 words)

	India - News - Clinton Visit Sparks Hopes For Quake-hit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He brought with him the keys to a $50-million fund put together by the America India Foundation, which was set up in the wake of the Gujarat quake with the former President as chairman.
		Several hundred locals had gathered in Anjar for a glimpse of their guest, who was scheduled to lay a wreath at a memorial, commissioned by his foundation, to 200 schoolchildren buried by the quake.
		In Anjar, the local authorities recruited a group of women to try to level out some of the town's damaged roads ahead of the Clinton visit.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/kutchbillvisit.html (541 words)

	Tsunami News for Anjar, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The 2005 projected population for Anjar, India is 62,508
		Anjar Primary School teacher Indiraben Vadher, who lost her husband in the 2001 earthquake, handed over a cheque of Rs 25,000 to Pradeep Sharma for tsunami...
		India --> was affected by the December 26, 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis.
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Anjar.html (174 words)

	Officials estimate death toll could go up to 100,000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		ANJAR, India (AP) — Tents, blankets and medical equipment poured into India on Tuesday as hopes for pulling more survivors from the wreckage of a massive earthquake dwindled to near zero and rescuers turned their attention to treating the survivors.
		India's defense minister estimated 100,000 may have died, with twice as many injured.
		While the search for survivors continued, workers in Anjar were also beginning to use heavy equipment to clear the debris — a sign that they no longer fear injuring anyone still trapped alive in the ruins.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2001-01-30-india.htm (912 words)

	India - News - Gold, Silver Prices Receive A Jolt Due To Quake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Because India is a major consumer of gold, events there can have an impact on the world prices of gold and silver," said Guisseppe Hottinger, a bank analyst in Zurich.
		It is difficult to assess at this point the extent of the impact on the overall diamond trade," a spokesman of Diminco, a leading diamond wholesaler in Antwerp, told IANS.
		Of the total amount, DM 3 million is to be used for the supply of water, while the remaining DM 7 million will be used for reconstruction of houses, according to Minister for Economic Cooperation Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul.
	www3.estart.com /india/news/gold.html (563 words)

	Bilham 1998
		The collision of India with Asia has initiated a compressional stress regime in a northwesterly direction, very different from that at the time of rifting, and the reactivation of these normal faults in a reverse sense is both anticipated (Khattri, 1992) and demonstrated (Chung; 1993; Chung and Gao, 1995).
		The fort at Anjar was destroyed, and a similar fate befell the fort at Sindri in the Rann of Kachchh.
		Anjar, 60 km SE of the Allah, was close to the epicenter of a M=6.1 earthquake in 1956 in which 109 people were killed (Chung and Gao, 1995).
	cires.colorado.edu /~bilham/Bilham(1998).html (8001 words)

	World sends aid to quake survivors
		Pakistan put aside its bitter rivalry with India yesterday and joined earthquake relief efforts, but heavy equipment and explosives brought in to clear debris signaled that hope of finding survivors had all but vanished.
		Aid from around the world was pouring into western India: a 747 loaded with water purification equipment from the United States, a $500,000 mobile hospital from Denmark and an air force plane filled with tents and blankets from Pakistan.
		Pakistan, which has fought three wars with India and is locked in a nuclear Cold War with its rival, said a second relief plane would be sent today and a third tomorrow.
	archive.recordonline.com /archive/2001/01/31/apindia.htm (731 words)

	Town Planning for Kutch ready-Ahmedabad-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		"officials of the bhuj, anjar and bhachau area development authorities, along with their respective consultants, have paid great deal of attention while drawing up maps that gave a clear picture on the physical status of these townships before the january 26 earthquake.
		while the mandatory public hearing by a specially-appointed tpo at bhuj is expected to begin by the third week of april, anjar would have to wait till may before it begins its countdown to reconstruction.
		sources in gandhinagar disclosed: "in anjar, the consultants who had prepared the development plans (dp) had to be changed.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_Id=7410182 (702 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA03301
		This magnitude 7.6 earthquake was the deadliest in the history of India with some 20,000 fatalities and over a million homes damaged or destroyed.
		The city of Anjar is in the dark gray area near the top center of the image.
		Anjar was previously damaged by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake in 1956 that killed 152 people and suffered again in the larger 2001 earthquake.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA03301 (535 words)

	Archived conservation news articles on Anjar
		Anjar MLA Nimaben Acharya, a medical practioner, district Congress president Shailendrasinh Jadeja, immediate past president Damyanti Ganatra of Bhuj Branch of...
		The Anjar Project is a charity that came into existence after a devastating earthquake throughout the state of Gujarat, India, which killed thousands and left...
		Anjar Mian, a government official, took her home initially but could not keep her for personal reasons.
	conservation.mongabay.com /files/Anjar.htm (917 words)

	CNN.com - Chaos greets Clinton in quake-hit India - April 4, 2001
		ANJAR, India -- Exuberant crowds who broke through barricades to greet former U.S. President Bill Clinton were beaten back by police.
		He is the first high-profile foreign visitor to the disaster zone, which is one of India's most industrialized states.
		His seven-day visit to Gujarat state, Bombay, New Delhi, Jaipur and Calcutta is being sponsored by the American India Foundation, a group of U.S. based business people of Indian descent, who aim to raise $20 million to rebuild 40 villages.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/04/04/india.clinton.visit (443 words)

	CNN.com - India quake: 'Nothing left between the sky and earth' - January 27, 2001
		AHMEDABAD, India -- International aid was beginning to flow on Saturday as the number of bodies recovered from India's earthquake reached 3,200.
		India's Defense Minister George Fernandes said the number of those feared dead was approaching 15,000.
		Many cities were beginning celebrations for India's 51st Republic Day, which commemorates the adoption of the country's constitution, when the quake struck.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/01/27/india.quake.03 (1176 words)

	CNN.com - Pakistan leader offers condolences after Indian quake - February 2, 2001
		NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- Pakistan military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf telephoned Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Friday with his condolences about the massive loss of life and property caused by last week's earthquake, said an Indian government spokesman.
		No outbreaks have been reported yet, but malaria, cholera and severe diarrhea were among the threats facing the homeless crowded into camps with no running water or toilets and relying on communal kitchens for food.
		India's main opposition Congress Party broke a week-long silence Friday to criticise the government for "tardy" relief work.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/india.quake.03 (1192 words)

	Hand-Printed, Dyed and Printed Fabrics,Discover Indians,In Gujarat state, Mandvi, Dhamadka, Mundra, Anjar, Jamanagar & ...
		The cross border carries the motif of the damroo, double-sided drum, and the trushul, trident, in one row, enclosed by the border, and single dhatura flowers are distributed in rows.
		Kuch was one of the oldest printing centres of Western India and many of the printing units of the west coast, which are known for their excellent quality of printing having printers who originally from Kuch.
		A large number of trainees have set up their workshops in many part of southern India, and the art of kalamkari has a number of master kalamkars producing excellent quality of work on a far greater range of subjects.
	4to40.com /discoverindia/index.asp?article=discoverindia_handprinted (2581 words)

	Gujarat: Compounded by human failure
		There was a near-total failure of communications from the affected parts of the State, such as Bhuj and Anjar.
		India's second-most industrialised State was a picture of chaos.
		Hardly a year passes by when India is not hit by one natural disaster or the other, but no plans are ever made to tackle them as a matter of course.
	www.blonnet.com /2001/02/23/stories/042360ds.htm (1406 words)

	An Eyewitness’ Account of Death, Horror And Misery: Ideas & Identities of India Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		ANJAR: Back from the brink of death from Anjar in Gujarat, one of the many towns razed to the ground in the recent earthquake, Umang Bhattacharya and his group of 24 students and 3 teachers who survived the tragedy are a changed lot.
		ANJAR, India--A falling chunk of concrete broke Yusuf Khumbar's arm, which was easy for a doctor to fix this weekend once it was X-rayed.
		The enormity of India's Jan. 26 earthquake is hard for even an adult to comprehend, as the estimates of the dead and the damage keep rising.
	www.chowk.com /show_article.cgi?aid=00000989&channel=gulberg&start=20&end=29&page=3&chapter=1&order=0 (6566 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com
		ANJAR, India, Feb. 2 (AP) - Two hundred Muslim men, their white topi caps covered in dust, some sprinkled with blood, gathered near an ancient tomb to show their submission to Allah's will in Friday prayers a week after India's killer earthquake.
		Though Muslims make up only 14 percent of India's 1 billion population, at 140 million they are still one of the world's largest Muslim communities.
		Many Anjar Muslims live in the old city, where the alleys are narrow and rescue workers had a difficult time.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/65/story_6565_1.html (386 words)

	Impact India Foundation : " Lifeline " for earthquake affected Gujarat
		At the request of the WHO and the Government of Gujarat the Lifeline Express moved to Anjar for an indefinite period and started working in collaboration with the Government Civil Hospital, Anjar.
		The Lifeline Express is stationed in Anjar, Gujarat, for an indefinite period.
		Its presence generates confidence and reassures the people of Anjar, Rambag, and the surrounding villages that in case of an emergency, that they will be medically and professionally served.
	www.impactindia.org /gujarat.htm (194 words)

	Gujarat Earthquake January 2001
		Damage reports from Bhuj and Anjar are distressingly similar to the damage reports of the 1819 earthquake when fewer than 2000 were killed.
		The distribution of strong-motion accelerometers in India is not as dense as one would like for this exceptional earthquake, but is probably adequate to to calibrate the FSK or Modified Mercalli scale relative to physical ground accelerations.
		Two immediate targets are to estimate the co-seismic strain-field by occupying these historic points, and to measure the viscous response of the lower crust and upper mantle over the next decade.
	cires.colorado.edu /~bilham/Gujarat2001.html (1351 words)

	August 1, 2001 - August 2, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		AHMEDABAD: Ratnal, one of the worst earthquake-devastated town near Anjar in Kutch district, has opted for relocation as it has suffered heavy loss of life and property for the second time on Republic Day.
		Talking to The Times of India of his experiences on Black Friday, with tears in his eyes, Ahir said, "I was busy performing 'puja' in a small temple in my house, and suddenly everything around me started shaking.
		Referring to the rehabilitation in Anjar constituency, he said it was one of the biggest constituency in the state, stretching from Surajbari (Jangi) to Ratnal.
	www.gujaratplus.com /00-01archive/arc382.html (2222 words)

	Cretaceous age for Ir-rich deccan intertrappean deposits: Palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India Journal ...
		In recent years, the Deccan Traps of peninsular India have been shown to represent a major episode of continental flood basalt volcanism nearly coincident with the K-T boundary (Courtillot et al.
		Evidence is now available for the occurrence of high concentrations of iridium in sediments ('intertrappean beds') intercalated between the volcanic flows at a locality near Anjar, Kachchh (=Kutch) District on the western margin of the Deccan province (Bhandari et al.
		Palynological data are still lacking for the Anjar intertrappeans, but prelimnary investigations revealed the presence of a Maastrichtian spore Gabonisporites between the upper and middle Ir levels (unpublished data, R. Kar, BSIP, Lucknow, India).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3721/is_200003/ai_n8903145 (983 words)

	maps india
		India 1700-1792 from The Historical Atlas by William R. Shepherd, 1923 (645K)
		India 1760 from The Public Schools Historical Atlas edited by C. Colbeck.
		India 1882 from A Dictionary Practical, Theoretical, and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation by J.R. M'Culloch.
	www.cntravel.biz /maps/india.shtml (428 words)

	Environment News Service: Clinton Mobbed Touring India's Earthquake Damage
		Throughout his tour, Clinton's security detail struggled to restrain the thousands of people in the towns of Bhuj, Anjar and Ratnal who wanted to shake his hand, pat him on the back or simply share the moment caused by his presence in their midst.
		In the nearby town of Anjar, the Impact India Foundation, which is running a hospital train, presented a patchwork quilt made by some of the earthquake affected children.
		Accompanied by the parents of Nemita Thakkar, a 12 year old schoolgirl who died in the quake, a somber looking Clinton paid homage to the dead of Anjar as he laid a wreath at the memorial to the 100-odd children who had died along with Nemita.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/apr2001/2001-04-05-02.asp (979 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Main News
		With massive destruction of houses in towns like Bhuj, Bachau and Anjar in the Kutch rescue workers are retrieving bodies from the debris even 18 days after the devastation on January 26.
		So much was the initial rush to cremate the bodies, we are told, that at one of the local cremation grounds, the fuel wood stocks meant to last two years were exhausted in two days.
		In Anjar, about 400 school children, who were taking out a rally through a narrow lane in connection with the Republic Day celebrations, were buried alive under the falling debris when tremors started.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010213/main4.htm (617 words)

	Polaris Images: a selection of images by Christopher Brown
		Calcutta, India Man carries statue of the Godess Saraswati during immersion ceremony on the Ganges.
		Bodhgaya, India Monks wear surgical masks because of pollution pass monk crawling on stomach arround stupa during Kalachakra rituals.
		Gujarat, India Man climbs over rubble caused by collapse of buildings by Jan 26 earthquake in town of Anjar.
	www.polarisimages.com /Portfolios/Photographers/Christopher_Brown (360 words)

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