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	Encyclopedia topic: Dahod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dahod is a town in the Gujarat (An industrialized state in western India that includes parts of Bombay) state of India (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947).
		Dahod is also a district in the state of Gujarat.
		Dahod city is the administrative headquarters of this district.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/dahod.htm (144 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of cities in India
		Haldia Is a major seaport in West Bengal, Midnapore District, approximately 50 kilometers southwest of Calcutta near the mouth of the Hoogly River, one of the mouths of the Ganges.
		Yanam or Yanaon is a district of the Union territory of Pondicherry and a town in that district.
		Anantapur Anantapur is a district and its administrative city in the southwest of the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, on the border of the state of Karnataka.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-cities-in-India (5176 words)

	Dahod (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dahod focused on the evolution of the carrier...
		The mass grave was found in the town of Dahod, suspected to be the site where bodies of the family members...
		This district was carved out of Panchmahal district.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Dahod (340 words)

	Onlinevolunteers.org - Genocide in Rural Gujarat: The Experience of Dahod District - Report by Forum Against oppression ...
		In the whole of Dahod district, the camps for Bohra and non-Bohra Muslims are separate and the data compilation has also been done separately.
		This report is not a comprehensive document on all the villages and talukas of Dahod district.
		Dahod is a small, new district carved out of the Panchmahals, on the eastern end of Gujarat state.
	www.onlinevolunteers.org /gujarat/reports/rural (1206 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ahmedabad, Aug. 29: Dahod district police have arrested three persons, including two brothers, for assaulting and intending to murder three women after branding them witches in Gamla village.
		Dahod superintendent of police R.B. Patel said over phone an anonymous tip-off had enabled police to intervene in the nick of time and save the lives of the three widows.
		In tribal Dahod, widows are frequently suspected of being witches and blamed for any death or misfortune in the village, and often killed as punishment.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1020830/asp/nation/story_1151293.asp (266 words)

	Concerned Citizens Tribunal - Gujarat 2002: An inquiry into the carnage in Gujarat
		Bifurcated from the Panchmahal district, and close to the Rajasthan border, this district experienced acute violence and killings during the post-Godhra carnage.
		In Dahod district, the affected villages are Sanjeli, Vansia, Mandli, Kakreli, Picchoda, Anika (Jhalod taluka) and Dungarpur (Limkheda taluka.) Every single household and business establishment belonging to the Muslim community was looted and burnt in villages such as Sanjeli, Sukhsar, Piplod and Fatehpura.
		Evidence recorded by the Tribunal from Dahod district indicates that the mobs arrived in vehicles such as trucks, tempos, jeeps, Marutis.
	www.sabrang.com /tribunal/volI/incidahod.html (9167 words)

	www.utthangujarat.org... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In Dahod district, where the watershed projects are being implemented with assistance from NABARD, the villagers have already contributed by way of their labour work worth over Rs 90,000 without taking any wages.
		Earlier, because of near total denudation of hills, the extent of erosion of land in the predominantly tribal district of Dahod was quite alarming.
		Saplings of fruit-bearing trees like Mango, Guava, Amla were brought from South Gujarat and distributed among the tribal families of Dahod district to be planted and reared on the wasteland around their village.
	www.utthangujarat.org /i1.htm (1175 words)

	Situation of camps (Genocide in Rural Gujarat: The Experience of Dahod District - Report, June 2002
		More than 10,000 people were displaced from their homes and many are still living in relief camps in Dahod district.
		The need for the continuation of the camp is so strong that even now the affected people are requesting the Collector to reopen the camp and he has given a verbal assurance for this in a meeting that he had with the residents.
		Many of the people who had come to Dahod had relatives already living there and thus some were accommodated in their homes.
	www.onlinevolunteers.org /gujarat/reports/rural/rural-gujarat-03.htm (1500 words)

	Mr Harnath Jagawat's Article on PLANNING COMMISSION - WORKING GROUP ON WATERSHED DEVELOPMENT
		However, the heavy concentration of the tribal population is in the districts Dahod, Dang, Narmada (carved from Bharuch), Surat, Valsad and Vadodara.
		In district Dahod, there are several tribal villages where the seasonal migration was as high as between 50 - 70 % of the population, came down to less than 10 % on the availability of irrigation.
		Next comes Dahod district, which has 25 % of the land under the Forest Department, but quantum wise it is more than 1,30,000 hectares, which is not only sizeable, but it can help majority of the tribal households in the district.
	www.nmsadguru.org /Article_TribalOfGujarat.htm (2027 words)

	-Poor turnout in Dahod
		But Dahod district with six assembly segments and all with tribal majority, the turnout was just an average of 40 per cent.
		Devy said that tribals of this district return to their villages only during Diwali and Holi.‘‘Since it’s December, most of the tribals must have gone back to the cities and very few had been left behind in their villages,’’ he pointed out, giving reasons for poor voter turnout.
		According to Devy, migration is highest from Limkheda, Jhalod and Dahod talukas of the district.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k2/dec/13poor.htm (205 words)

	Dinosaur eggs continue being openly sold in Dahod district
		Thanks to the sheer indifference of the State Government and apparent helplessness of local authorities, villages in Jhalod taluka in the district -- a dinosaur hatchery in the Jurassic age -- are being plundered by all and sundry for the eggs, priced between Rs 2,000 and Rs 20,000.
		``I admit that the problem in the Dahod areas has not been taken care of as yet.'' Promising a concrete plan of action he points to headway made in the preservation ofRahioli village in Kheda district, which is a dinosaurs' graveyard.
		Dahod collector Elias Ibrahim Kalashva and Superintendent of Police K L N Rao admit that they had received unconfirmed reports about such thefts in the past, but not at present.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19980929/27250104.html (662 words)

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		The N M Sadguru Water and Development Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) functioning in Dahod district that is known simply as Sadguru, and the residents here have constructed a series of concrete check dams to collect rainwater for irrigation.
		Apart from Saurashtra and Kachchh, the districts of Dahod and Panchmahals in Gujarat as well as Jhabua and Dhar in the neighbouring Madhya Pradesh are facing a serious drinking water crisis.
		In Jhabua district, the total kharif crop yield of 1999 is estimated to be 60 per cent lower than in 1998 (106,735 metric tonnes as against 265,036 metric tonnes), according to Wasim Akhtar, collector of Jhabua district.
	www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca /lists/html/dam-l/2000/msg01396.html (2851 words)

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		Meanwhile, the Congress is facing a rebellion within its rank and file in the tribal-dominated district of Dahod over the selection of a candidate for the Lok Sabha seat.
		The seven-time winner from Dahod, Somji Damor, who only lost the 1999 elections to the BJP, has threatened to resign from the party while his supporters have taken an initiative to dislodge the party from the district panchayat.
		Though her husband is the district panchayat president, the supporters of Mr.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2004032505581100.htm&date=2004/03/25/&prd=th& (458 words)

	Districts of Gujarat: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Indian state of Gujarat was created in 1960 out of the 17 northern districts of former Bombay state: Ahmedabad, Amreli, Banaskantha, Bharuch, Bhavnagar, Dang, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Kheda, Kutch, Mehsana, Panchmahal, Rajkot, Sabarkantha, Surat, Surendranagar, and Vadodara.
		In 1964 Gandhinagar district was formed from parts of Ahmedabad and Mahesana, and in 1966 Valsad district was split from Surat.
		On October 2, 1997 Anand district was split from Kheda, Dahod district was split from Panchmahal, Narmada District was split from Bharuch, Navsari District was split from Valsad, and Porbandar district was split from Junagadh.
	winelib.com /wiki/Districts_of_Gujarat (205 words)

	Protests planned over Maulana's arrest-
		As the indefinite bandh continued in Godhra town and Dahod district for the second day on Friday, members of the minority community decided to take out a silent march in the town and sit on a dharna near the district collector's office with banners on Saturday.
		Panchmahals district superintendent of police Narsimha Komar, however, said he has not been informed of any plans for dharna or rally.
		District collector Manoj Agrawal said the town was peaceful on Friday.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k3/feb/8protest.htm (383 words)

	Bilkis Banu case to be heard in Dahod court
		All proceedings, including hearing of the bail applications in the Bilkis Banu gangrape-cum-murder case, related to the post-Godhra riots, would now be held at the Dahod district sessions court.
		This order was passed by Special Fast Track Court judge H P Patel on a CBI plea that the district court in Ahmedabad did not have jurisdiction to hear the case.
		At present, 13 persons, including a BJP leader from Dahod and a head constable from Randhipur, have been arrested and are in judicial custody.
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/mar/05godhra.htm (254 words)

	Migration process begins for Gujarat riot victims, The Milli Gazette, Vol. 3 No. 10
		Having been driven from their homes by marauding mobs who raped and killed their kith and kin, looted and burnt their houses, the riot victims are not being left to carry on a peaceful existence albeit a temporary one, in the relief camps and have been attacked on several occasions.
		According to Khadim Lalpuri, president of the coordination committee of all Sabarkantha relief camps, the survey that was undertaken by coordination committee confirmed that 101 persons died in communal violence in Sabarkantha against the official figure of 41.
		While four of the camps at Dahod have been closed down, Ahmedabad is witnessing a spurt in the number of camps.
	www.milligazette.com /Archives/15052002/1505200274.htm (1318 words)

	Dahod District Map - Gujarat - Maps of India
		Dahod District Map - Gujarat - Maps of India
		States and U.T. Gujarat >> Districts >> Dahod District Map
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	www.mapsofindia.com /maps/gujarat/districts/dahod.htm (168 words)

	Gnawed by hunger, tribals prefer exodus to vote - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There is no let up in the migration of tribals of Dahod district as hundreds of them continue to migrate daily to “Gujarat” in search of employment.
		Dahod district, adjoining Madhya Pradesh, is indeed an integral part of Gujarat but when tribals go in search of employment they say, “We are going to Gujarat.” By Gujarat, they mean other parts of the State like Ahmedabad, Surat, Saurashtra and Kutch.
		According to conservative estimates, at least 1,000 to 2,000 tribals from villages in Dahod districts hit the road to cities everyday.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/apr112004/iv7.asp (648 words)

	Gujarat cops in a spot over exhuming bodies
		Neither the relatives nor the police are clear about the nature of their deaths as they could have died due to injuries sustained in stone pelting by a mob and also due to suffocation as many of them were cramped into vehicles while fleeing, the case investigating officer said.
		Officials are awaiting clearance from relatives of two riot victims to exhume the bodies to verify allegations that one of them died due to a bullet injury sustained when the legislator alleged opened fire.
		Bano, who alleged she was gang-raped and several of her relatives were killed while fleeing from a mob in Dahod, assisted a Central Bureau of Investigation team that conducted an investigation and reopened the case after which it was transferred to a Mumbai court for trial.
	in.rediff.com /news/2005/jun/11guj.htm (674 words)

	Dahod, India: An answer to migration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All his life, 53-year-old Manu Bhura Damor has lived in the same village in Dahod District.
		Dahod ADP persuaded Manu’s wife and five other women in the village to purchase cows and start a milking co-operative.
		Manu’s family was the first in his village to adopt the biogas technology World Vision introduced into Dahod ADP.
	www.worldvision.org.nz /wherewework/stories/india_dahod_answer.asp (543 words)

	Central Chronicle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		MUMBAI: Bilkis Bano, prime witness in the Bilkis Bano gangrape-cum-murder case, is today understood to have identified in the trial court 12 accused, who had allegedly outraged her modesty and assaulted her and members of her family at Dahod in Gujarat on March 3, 2002.
		She deposed before the court in-camera and named 12 of the total 20 accused who were in the dock.
		On January 13, the court had framed charges against the accused for their alleged complicity in attacking a group of 17 members of minority community, including Bilkis Bano, in Devgarh Baria village of Dahod district on March three, 2002 in the aftermath of Godhra train carnage.
	www.centralchronicle.com /20050223/2302004.htm (383 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In all the areas along the north-eastern border of the state (Sabarkantha, Panchmahals, Dahod and Chotaudepur) there was sizeable participation of adivasis along with non-adivasis in the violence.
		Sabarkantha is a district where there were a number of incidents of adivasis helping and sheltering Muslims attacked by Hindu mobs.
		Where the Muslims are farmers, as in Dahod district, the adivasis are labourers or sharecroppers working for them.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=2002&leaf=06&filename=4522&filetype=html (3004 words)

	Committee to probe Godhra train fire; Bilkis Bano trial deferred till Sept 15; Murli Manohar Joshi, Kailash Joshi court ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On March 1, 2002, six-month pregnant Bilkis Bano was allegedly gangraped and her relatives were slaughtered by a mob during post-Godhra riots in Dahod district of Gujarat.
		The recent arrest of Avatar Singh, husband of CPM MP from Krishnagar in Nadia district Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, for running a sleaze racket from his hotel in Salt Lake has caused a great deal of embarrassment to the ruling Marxists in general and the chief minister in particular.
		The district police had to resort to lathi-charge and even open fire to disperse a violent CPM mob on Tuesday protesting against the leaders' arrest.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/news2004/sept04/sept0204_news.html (2553 words)

	Catch Water Newsletter 7
		During the recent drought in Gujarat there were many villages that used to wait for their supply of water through trains or tankers.
		However, residents of villages such as Raj-Samadiyala in Rajkot district considered it to be a ‘shame’ to get government water.
		After the visit to the villages in Dahod, the yatra moved on to Raj-Samadhiyala village, 20 km from Rajkot city.
	www.rainwaterharvesting.org /catchwater/june2000/newslet7_3.htm (1212 words)

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