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	Banda - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BANDA, a town and district of British India, in the Allahabad division of the United Provinces.
		Banda, which forms one of the districts included under the general name of Bundelkhand, has formed an arena of contention for the successive races who have struggled for the sovereignty of India.
		About the year 1735 the raja of Kalinjar's territory, including the present district of Banda, was bequeathed to Baji Rao, the Mahratta peshwa; and from the Mahrattas it passed by the treaties of 1802-1803 to the Company.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Banda (434 words)

	Banda - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Banda, Hastings Kamuzu (1906?-1997), first prime minister (1964-1966) and president (1966-1994) of Malawi.
		Banda Islands, island group, eastern Indonesia, part of the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, in the Banda Sea, near Ceram.
		Banda Sea, nearly enclosed sea situated between latitudes 4° and 8° south.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Banda.html (103 words)

	Sikh Martyrs:Baba Banda Singh Bahadur
		Shaheed Baba Banda Singh Bahadur came to the Punjab scene in 1708 when the Mughal government was planning the genocide of the Sikhs, but the daring deeds of the Khalsa under his leadership made the Sikhs the rulers of the eastern region of the state.
		Banda was born on 16 October 1670 at Rajori Village in Jammu.
		Banda sent Sikhs to the Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), a large state to the north of Delhi, because of charges against many state officials and administrators regarding repression of the people, particularly of harassment of non-Muslims.
	www.allaboutsikhs.com /sikh-history/sikh-martyrs-baba-banda-singh-bahadur.html (2737 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Banda,
		Banda Islands BANDA ISLANDS [Banda Islands] group of 10 volcanic islands, c.70 sq mi (180 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Banda Sea, in the Moluccas.
		Banda Sea BANDA SEA [Banda Sea], section of the Pacific Ocean, c.600 mi (970 km) long and c.300 mi (480 km) wide, E Indonesia, outlined by the South Molucca islands.
		Law: A lesson in racism; Dr Fareda Banda was shocked to discover that her white peers at the School of Oriental and African Studies earned up to pounds 10,000 more.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Banda, (713 words)

	The Central India Campaign
		The Central India Campaign however was significant because of presence of three charismatic figures who caused a lot of trouble to the British.
		Here they joined the Nawab of Banda who had declared himself independent in the aftermath of a rebellion led by sepoys of the detachment of 1st NI stationed at Banda on 14 June 1857.
		The only Muslim State of any worth in Central India was the Bhopal state but this state was ruled by a worthless woman who stayed loyal despite the fact that her state troops revolted.
	www.defencejournal.com /2000/feb/central-indian.htm (4318 words)

	Sardar Banda Singh Bahadur
		In few days the Guru held a durbar, conferred the title of Banda Bahadur on him and appointed him his military lieutenant to punish the Governor of Sarhind who had killed his two youngest sons, and was mainly responsible for the death of his two elder sons, his mother and thousands of Sikhs and Hindus.
		Banda himself, dressed out of mockery in a turban of a red cloth, embroidered with gold, and a heavy robe of brocade flowered with pomegranates, sat in an iron cage, placed on the back of an elephant.
		Banda's cage was again hoisted on top of an elephant, and he was dressed in mock attire of an emperor, with a colourful red pointed turban on his head.
	www.sikh-history.com /sikhhist/warriors/banda.html (5907 words)

	Gateway to Sikhism :Gurudwara Banda Bahadur- New Delhi
		Thus spoke Banda Singh Bahadur a great Sikh hero in reply to a question put to him by Mohammad Amin Khan, the author of Siyarul-Mutakherin when he went near him to ask as to why he was waging war against Mughals.
		Banda Bahadur was tortured to death by order of Mughal King Farrukh Siyar on June 19, 1716 in Mehrauli near Qutab Minar.
		Banda Bahadur and his army overran Punjab and held sway over a large part of the area.
	allaboutsikhs.com /gurudwaras/gd-banda.htm (931 words)

	Banda Singh Bahadur .. a small tribute
		Banda Singh was clothed with clothes of a joker with a cap on head, was firmly chained, put in an iron cage.
		Banda Singh on an elephant in an iron cage in the fore-front.
		It was a strange incidence in the life of Banda Singh that when at the age of 15 years he saw dying two infants of a deer, which altogether changed his life and now at the age of 46, the beating heart of his own son was being pushed into his own mouth.
	www.santsipahee.com /saintsoldier/banda-singh-bahadur.htm (3516 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Education Tribune
		One, India is not a signatory to the Hague convention; and two, it obviously was next to impossible for the dying father to go through the snail-paced Indian judicial system.
		Since India is not bound by the Hague Convention, the courts here, so far, have been dealing with such cases considering the welfare of the child of paramount importance.
		Banda Bahadur was finally captured at Gurdas Nangal in Gurdaspur district and was brought to Delhi on February 29, 1716, along with 740 followers.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2006/20060430/society.htm (3110 words)

	Tsunami News for Banda, India
		BANDA ACEH (Antara): A refugee center reported on Monday an increase in the number of pregnancies at camps for displaced persons three months after a tsunami...
		Medan and the city of Banda Aceh (located in the Aceh Province), which is very near the epicenter of the massive earthquake that generated the deadly tsunami.
		India --> was affected by the December 26, 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunamis.
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2005/Banda.html (2257 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> Spotlight -> War on Iraq -> Indonesia begins military offensive against rebels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Banda Aceh: Indonesian attack planes on May 19 fired rockets at a rebel base in Aceh province, signalling the start of a military offensive just hours after the breakdown of peace talks in Tokyo.
		Earlier on May 19, the Indonesian military said it was ready to "ambush and paralyse" separatist rebels in Aceh while hundreds of troops parachuted into the province in a show of force.
		It was unclear if there were any casualties in the attack, which the military said targeted an alleged weapons cache in the rebel camp.
	news.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usiraqwar/19indonesia.html (252 words)

	Banda, India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banda is a city in Uttar Pradesh state, India.
		Banda lies south of the Yamuna river in the Bundelkhand region.
		It is the administrative headquarters of Banda District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banda,_India (93 words)

	INDIAN MIRROR - GEOGRAPHY - Minerals in India
		India has a large number of economically useful minerals and they constitute one-quarter of the world's known mineral resources.
		India also possesses the all-too valuable nuclear uranium as well as some varieties of rare earths.
		The peaty and marshy soils are found in the Bengal deltas, Saline and alkaline soils in the semi-arid regions of Bihar, U.P, Gujarat, Punjab and Rajasthan.
	www.indianmirror.com /geography/geo4.html (537 words)

	ORTI ::: Shri Rajaram Memorial Eye Hospital Society - Banda, Uttar Pradesh - India.
		The mission of this institute, Banda is to be a unique and world class nucleating "Apex center of Excellent" in the area of optometric technology and allied optometry science for enhancing India's technological strength in optometry science and for becoming a pace-setting institution for other similar institutes to be established.
		The region where this institute is situated is comparatively a remote and backward area and we hope that our Optometry Research and Training knowledge will quite effectively be helpful in controlling the human blindness which is already reaching to an alarming situation.
		Optometry is a health care profession specifically licensed all over the world [not only in India] to take care for human eye.
	ortibanda.org /index.htm (900 words)

	India Book House Pvt Ltd
		Few characters in the history of India have had as spectacular and meteoric a life as Banda Bahadur.
		Banda planted the flag of rebellion within a few miles of the Imperial capital.
		For the next eight years, he ravaged the whole of North India and defeated the most powerful mercenary army of the time with his ill-equipped, untrained peasant militia.
	www.amarchitrakatha.com /store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=338 (182 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - Religion mixes with aid work in devastated Banda Aceh
		BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - Even as Muslims in Indonesia’s stricken Aceh province blame last month’s tsunami on divine wrath, religious groups have rushed to join the huge aid operation, with Islam now joined by Christianity, Buddhism and even Scientology in the fight to save souls.
		In downtown Banda Aceh, which took a direct, hit from the tsunami, members of the radical Islamic Defenders’ Front collect bodies from the streets in their white shirts and headscarves.
		A similar approach was used in India where Buddhist monks trained by the Scientologists in a technique called “assist” used massage and conversation to keep people from focusing on their trauma.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/todaysfeatures/2005/January/todaysfeatures_January27.xml§ion=todaysfeatures (762 words)

	Travelling in Indonesia (ACEH)
		Banda Aceh is the capital of Aceh and also the main gateway to the province.
		The Governor's Residence, was built by the Dutch in 1880 on the spot where the palace of the sultan once stood.
		Lhokseumawe is a town located 274 km from Banda Aceh which is now being developed as an industrial zone.
	www.emp.pdx.edu /htliono/Aceh.html (996 words)

	general Information
		In this district this often is associated with diaspore occurring in the form of geode like bodies as shining crystals upto 30-35 mm in length used in high alumina refractory bricks alone or banded with flint plastic clay.
		The Banda clay is tentatively considered to have resulted from the alternation of Vindhyan shales and other elastic materials.
		The soils here are mostly fertile and inspite of many projects of irrigations as seen in the previous pages, the uncertainty of irrigation and its dependence on rains has made this tract adopt mostly the traditional farming.
	www.banda.nic.in /general.htm (1769 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World
		India will take speedy action to instal a tsunami warning system at a cost of Rs 125 crore and it will be fully functional in two-and-a-half years, Mr Kapil Sibal, Minister for Science and Technology and Ocean Development has said.
		US Navy helicopter crewman at Indonesia's Banda Aceh airport carries an Acehnese man after he was evacuated from his village on Aceh's west coast on Monday.
		Now 3,000 homeless and destitute people are living in a crowded refugee camp on the outskirts of the town, where they spend their days reliving the nightmare unleashed by the tsunami and searching fruitlessly for relatives and friends.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050104/world.htm (2770 words)

	Rajput News, Articles, Indian Resources, Hinduism Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Born at Rajouri in the Jammu into a family of Minhas Rajputs his confrontation with the Mughal administration in Northern India, though brief, was strong enough to shake its foundations.
		Banda Singh Bahadur became the leader of the Khalsa following the death of Guru Gobind Singh.
		Perhaps the most remembered and quoted woman in India history is a sixteenth century poet, singer and saint called Mirabai, or Meera.
	www.rajputindia.com /resources/default.asp?category=11 (628 words)

	Tsunami News for Banda, India
		BANDA ACEH, Indonesia, Jan 23 (AFP) - A summary of the situation in the quake...
		BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) -- Tsunami survivors in Indonesia's shattered Aceh province have left relief camps by the tens of thousands in recent days to move...
		He is currently stationed at an airport in Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh Province, which was devastated by the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami disaster.
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Banda.html (2630 words)

	Banda District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banda District is a district of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Banda is the district headquarters.
		Banda district is a part of Chitrakoot Division.
		Banda is famous for its Shajar stone, used for making jewellery, and the historically and architecturally significant sites Khajuraho and Kalinjar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banda_District (211 words)

	India Culture Disucssion chat forums
		For three months Banda Bahadur and his men were tortured to reveal where they had hidden the treasures which funded the Sikh resistance.
		Banda's reply was, "When the tyrants oppress their subjects to the limit, then God sends men like me on this earth to mete out punishment to them.
		The executioner grabbed Banda Bahadur's head in his rough callused hands and with a bloodcurdling shudder thrust the tip of his razor sharp dagger into Banda's right eye, twisting and turning into the socket as he slashed the optical nerves and gouged out the eyeball.
	indiaculture.net /talk/messages/65/562.html?930808201 (2752 words)

	Aceh residents flee due to aftershocks- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		BANDA ACEH: Hundreds of residents in tsunami-ravaged provincial capital of Banda Aceh sought refuge again in Aceh Besar district following an aftershock registering 6.5 on the Richter scale.
		The aftershock occurred while many Banda Aceh residents who had fled the area were about to return to their homes in the city devastated by an earthquake measuring 8.9 on the Richter scale and a tsunami last Dec 26.
		Another resident, Jamaluddin (50), who survived the tsunami said he would not return to Banda Aceh even after conditions there had returnd to normal.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/983266.cms (248 words)

	Spice Islands Archaeology Project-Banda's Refugee Villages
		The most well known of these communities are the villages of Banda Ely and Banda Elat on the island of Kei Besar, southeast of Banda, where people still speak a modified version of the Bandanese language, now extinct on Banda itself.
		Pak La Ade is a well known figure in the small sago growing villages in eastern Seram--often he is the only contact these villages have with the world of plastic buckets, laundry detergent and kretek cigarettes, and his boat's arrival in the lagoon is welcomed.
		The village of Rumadan seemed to have the strongest tradition of Banda heritage; we spent two incredible days meeting and talking to people about their history, and the many sacred sites that serve as a physical reminder of their origins.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Anthropology/SIAP/seram.html (634 words)

	Trading Places: The East India Company and Asia
		Their United East India Company, or VOC, of 1602 began with 10 times the capital of the English East India Company and easy access to the manpower of North Germany and the Baltic.
		The spice islands of the Banda group (Lontor, Neira, Api, Ai and Run), the intervening Buru, Ceram and Amboina, and the Moluccas (Batjan, Makian, Tidore and Ternate) were ruled by independent local kings and chieftains, most of them hostile to each other.
		Buru lies to the east of Ceram with the Banda group of tiny islands due south in the Banda Sea.
	www.fathom.com /course/21701760/session2.html (1699 words)

	Situation Reports: South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Maldives, Seychelles, Sri ...
		According to the Government of India, the death toll is at 10,136.
		The lack of sufficient landing slots and airport handling capacity in Banda Aceh is causing cargo to be retained in Subang UN air hub.
		The FAO is planning to provide technical and material assistance to the Indonesian authorities and community groups to facilitate the provision of critical agriculture/fishery support and extension services to 60,000 disaster affected households.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/SZIE-68HQ5A?OpenDocument (2956 words)

	Situation Reports: South Asia: Earthquake and Tsunami - Dec 2004, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Somalia, ...
		After his visit in Jakarta and Banda Aceh, the United Nations Secretary-General is to arrive in Sri Lanka on Friday 7 January and will visit affected areas the next day.
		A total of 340 MT of rice, 38 MT of fortified biscuits and 5 vehicles and 106 tarpaulins were dispatched to Banda Aceh from Medan on 5 January 2005.
		WFP is currently assisting (monthly ration) 110,000 persons in Banda Aceh and surrounding areas, and has started to assist 140,000 people on the east coast, mostly fishermen communities.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/rwb.nsf/AllDocsByUNID/d39a0a882d6a7e9985256f82006a1158 (3920 words)

	Biographies : DR. SIVA S. BANDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Siva S. Banda, a member of the scientific and professional cadre of senior executives, is Senior Scientist for Control Theory, Air Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
		Banda joined the Flight Dynamics Laboratory in 1981 as an aerospace research engineer in the Flight Controls Division.
		Banda has written and co-written more than 180 archival articles and 15 technical reports and books, and delivered more than 80 lectures.
	www.af.mil /bios/bio.asp?bioID=4596 (574 words)

	helpIndia.com A website about charitable work in India and helping India
		In India, the organisation is helping fishing families restore their livelihoods and planning to provide a water purification system.
		In India, HAI is distributing food, cooking oil, blankets, lanterns, stoves, clothing, bedding and other provisions to elderly people and their families.
		The British-based organisation is undertaking field assessments in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.
	www.helpindia.com /php/showContent.php?linkid=2 (2459 words)

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