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	Rediff On The NeT: Dangs likely to become political minefield, says study
		The Dangs, the tribal-dominated south Gujarat district, which recently witnessed communal violence over the issue of conversion, is likely to become an arena of intense political activity in the days ahead.
		The study, titled, The True Story of The Dangs, notes that apart from Christian and Hindu religious organisations trying to intensify their activities, political parties are also endeavouring to take advantage of the situation.
		It notes that the conversion has generated social tension in the tribal Dangs society since it is mostly the individuals who convert, and not entire families.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/mar/03dang.htm (442 words)

	Dangs: Danger zone once again!
		Dangs is the smallest of the districts of Gujarat in an absolutely sylvan environment with a forest coverage of more than 90%.
		It is interesting to note that the breakup of the population of the Dangs hardly mentions the numbers that practice tribal religions (animism), maintaining that just 219 persons did not state their religion.
		The ecological and environmental destruction that is being caused to the Dangs by the construction of over 40 townships in the District to be able to cater to the huge numbers which they intend bringing in.
	www.indianet.nl /rm060104.html (1270 words)

	The Hindu : Tree-felling poses threat to Dangs forests
		A drive through the Dangs forests in south Gujarat exposes a series of stumps that stand testimony to the unabated felling of trees, posing a serious threat to the green cover.
		The Dangs has more than 500 species of flora, including about 300 species of medicinal plants, many of these like ``Safed Musli'', the base medicine for various Ayurvedic formulations, being peculiar to the hot and humid climate of the region.
		Though the incidents of forest fire have declined considerably in the Dangs, the level of cooperation from the locals is far from satisfactory.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/02/02/stories/0402206t.htm (855 words)

	:: SECULAR INDIA ::..
		Dangs is the smallest district of the State of Gujarat.
		Morari Bapu, a popular religious preacher, invited to Dangs in 2002, is said to have mooted the idea of the new Kumbh at the Dangs, at the `precise' spot where Ram and Lakshman met Shabri and ate the berries given by her.
		Dangs Collector RM Jadhav confirmed to Mahesh Langa of Tehalka of the administration's involvement: `We are providing infrastructure support like electicity, check-dams etc. for the Kumbh.' When asked whether Dangs needed a Kumbh, Jadhav parried it, saying, `It's a religious issue.
	www.secularindia.com /articles/2006/02/G_report.htm (10604 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In the late 19th century the British had accepted that about two-thirds of the Dangs should be available for cultivation, though by 1911 the forest department had encroached on this to the extent that over half of the tract was classed as reserved for forest [Skaria 1998:619].
		Madhu Gaikwad, a kukna from Dangs and lecturer in sociology at South Gujarat University, Surat, says that the Christians feel that they have liberated themselves from the old beliefs and ways, which they now consider to be morally inferior and ‘backward’.
		Jivan Rathod, a BJP member of the Dangs district panchayat, and, ironically, himself a Christian, voiced such feelings to me in an interview: “There are families in the Dangs in which a son was converted in Christianity and the father was not.
	www.epw.org.in /showArticles.php?root=1999&leaf=09&filename=482&filetype=html (7453 words)

	OregonLive.com: Previous stories about the deaths of the Dang family
		Melody Dang and her sons, Steven, 15, and Jimmy, 12, were found dead Friday morning by Dang's longtime boyfriend, who lived with the family in their suburban Washington County home.
		Dang, who was born in Vietnam, changed her name from Anh Hong Dang in the 1990s while living near Olympia.
		Serrano was arraigned Wednesday on 10 counts of aggravated murder in the shooting deaths of Melody Dang, 37, and her sons Steven, 15, and Jimmy, 12.
	washingtoncountyupdates.blogs.oregonlive.com /default.asp?item=271239 (3945 words)

	DenverPost.com - Experience taxing on immigrants
		Dang and his wife, Christine, work for the U.S. Postal Service, where they say two sisters were peddling tax services to co-workers.
		Dang said he borrowed $15,000 from his wife's retirement plan to pay back the debts he has piled up and hire an attorney.
		Dang's Denver attorney, David Sprecace, said the IRS, the state Department of Revenue and U.S. postal authorities are investigating.
	www.denverpost.com /allewis/ci_3713189 (781 words)

	Untold story of Hindukaran (proselyisation) of adivasi (tribal) in Dangs (Gujarat, India)
		In Dangs, following the ascendancy of the BJP to the state government in Gujarat in 1995 and in the centre in 1996, anti- Christian propaganda was raised rapidly to boiling point.
		Kumbh in the tribal district of Dangs in Gujarat, on Feb 11-13, 2006.
		Dangs is a predominantly adivasi area with sparse population and rich forest cover.
	www.pucl.org /Topics/Religion-communalism/2006/dangs.htm (10534 words)

	Tehelka - The People's Paper
		In Dangs, there is a common belief among tribals that the legendary Ram and Lakshman had passed through the area on their way to Lanka.
		There are 311 villages in Dangs but the district administration has spent Rs 9 crore on constructing check-dams all over eastern Dangs keeping in mind the venue for the Kumbh.
		Dangs Collector RM Jadhav confirmed the administration’s involvement: “We are providing infrastructure support like electricity, check-dams etc. for the Kumbh.” When asked whether Dangs needed a Kumbh, Jadhav parried it, saying, “It’s a religious issue.
	www.tehelka.com /story_main14.asp?filename=Ne101505RSS_invents.asp (1468 words)

	The Hindu : VHP pamphleteering worries Christians in Dangs
		There is apprehension among Christians in the tribal-dominated Dangs district in south Gujarat over a "Ram katha" discourse organised by the Vishwa Hindu Parishad-supported Shree Sabrimata Seva Samiti at Subir village, near the district headquarter of Ahwa.
		The pamphlets released by the Seva Samiti claim that Subir village is the spot where Shabri waited for Lord Rama as it believed that Dangs was the original "Dandakaranya" of the Ramayana age.
		Justifying the apprehension among the Christians is the reported threat to the Christians by a Minister in the Narendra Modi Cabinet, Karsan Patel, who is in charge of the Dangs district and one of the chief organisers of the Ram katha.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2002/10/25/stories/2002102506051100.htm (466 words)

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		A.B. Vajpayee visited the Dangs District of South Gujarat in the wake of the violence to view the situation and to voice his support for the victims.
		The NCCI insists that, by calling for a debate on the subject of conversions, the Prime Minister has lent credibility to all the false allegations of the VHP and Bajrang Dal that the Christian Missions are engaged in forced conversions.
		In view of the prevailing situation and the possibilities of further deterioration in Gujarat, the team recommended that this information dissemination process be continued for the next three months as a pilot phase with the possibility of extension of this to three years.
	www.asia-lutheran.org /april_99/p12.html (1953 words)

	Former tribal kings dispute freedom fighter's claim of land in Dangs
		Four former tribal kings in the Dangs district submitted a memorandum to the district collector opposing the demand of Purnima Pakwasa, Gandhian social activist and freedom fighter, who is on a hunger strike in Saputara since last Monday.
		In a memorandum submitted to district collector, four former tribal rulers of the Dangs area, Dhanrajsingh Chandrasingh of Vasurna, Trikaramrao Sahebrao of Pimpri, Karansingh Yashwantrao of Gadhvi and Santaram Bakul of Vasurna said that the land which Purnima Pakwasa claims actually belongs to the tribals.
		The memorandum, a copy of which is with the UNI, says that the entire land of the Dangs district actually belonged to the Adivasis, which was later handed over to government for development activities.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20061114/507379.html (225 words)

	Push against Christian conversions in India said to be ‘evidence of success’ for the Gospel - International ...
		DANGS, India (BP)—A new campaign against the conversion of Hindus to Christianity is “evidence of success” for the spread of the Gospel in India, says a Christian worker there.
		In 1998, militants organized brutal attacks on tribal converts in the Dangs district, which the Evangelical Fellowship of India calls the “epicenter of the war against Christianity in Gujarat.” More than 1,000 Gujarati Muslims were massacred by Hindus in 2002 – drawing worldwide condemnation.
		From the platform of the “Shabari Kumbh Mela” in February, Hindu nationalist leaders repeatedly warned Indian Christians and missionaries to cease outreach – and exhorted converts to “come home” to Hinduism.
	www.imb.org /core/story.asp?storyID=3829&LanguageID=1709 (1163 words)

	Time to Expose Political Hinduism - Worldpress.org
		The choice of the Dangs is outwardly favorable to the Hindu militants, as the state chief minister Narendra Mody is a Hindutva-hardliner.
		The Dangs is viewed by the Sangh Parivar as a distorted Dandakaranya, where the Ramayana heroes stayed during their 14-year banishment.
		A Web site launched for the coming festival (www.shabarikumbh.org), states that in the Dangs, "the immortal devotee of Sri Rama met her Lord and lovingly offered him sweet berries which she had tasted herself." In the area there is a large temple named after Shabari.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=2375&dont=yes (1239 words)

	Dangs of Gujarat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dangs are Adivasi tribals living in a socially remote and highly sensitive and vulnerable forested region in the state of Gujarat.
		The Dangs follow their own social codes, posseses their own oracles and excorcist-healers, and worship their animist pantheon of gods and godlings:rivers and piles of stones,tree sprites and snakes deities, local mountain spirits and Tiger Gods.
		Attacks on christians especially like the one in the Dang tribal village of Gujarat in a secular country like India has activated many organisations to question the credibilty of the government.Protests such as these are held but the results remain doubtful.
	www.netphotograph.com /article.php?id=38 (334 words)

	INDIA: Hindu festival poses threat to adivasi identity, culture and religion; violence feared
		Based on a speech by Morari Bapu in 2003, Hindu fundamentalists claim that Ram visited the Dangs and that the hill Chamak Dungar (Shining Mountain) is precisely the place where Ram met Shabari and ate the wild berries she had tasted.
		Much of the Hindu agitation in the Dangs is traced by local adivasis to the arrival in the district in 1997 of Swami Asimanand from West Bengal, a member of the fundamentalist group Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP).
		Hindu materials already being circulated in the Dangs speak of the “reconversion” of adivasis to Hinduism, a religion that is foreign to most adivasis, as they traditionally are animists.
	www.ahrchk.net /ua/mainfile.php/2006/1516 (1739 words)

	archive: Dangs Violence is A Story Foretold
		Title: Dangs Violence is A Story Foretold Author: ARUN VARGHESE Publication: Times of India Date: Feb 11, 1999 URL: http://www.timesofindia.com/today/11edit5.htm IN asking for a debate on religious conversions, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee has avoided direct condemnation of the extremist Hindu groups responsible for orchestrating the violence in Dangs district of Gujarat.
		The church in the predominantly tribal Dangs district is roughly a century old.
		District police officials, who are now engaged in a census of the Christian community in Dangs, say that Christian numbers have picked up substantially in the last decade to stand at roughly 30,000 in a district population of about 1.6 lakhs.
	www.media-watch.org /articles/0299/182.html (672 words)

	WUSA - Print Story
		The Dangs were one of the thousands of families who called the Fort home after the fall of Saigon.
		The second youngest of the Dang children was eight-years old when she arrived at the camp.
		But the America of the Dangs is without question the legendary land of hope and opportunity.
	www.wusa9.com /printfullstory.aspx?storyid=39278 (245 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Dangs violence isn't good for Indian culture, says Sonia
		Replying to a question, Gandhi said she had not come to the Dangs as a representative of any religion, but was there as a Congress leader to understand the people's problems and to express her feelings for them.
		She said her party is not demanding the dismissal of the Keshubhai Patel government, but she accused it of directly or indirectly supporting those perpetrating atrocities on the minorities.
		Expressing grief at the damage caused by the stoning, she described the act as "shameful" and expressed concern at the attacks on educational institutions.
	specials.rediff.com /news/1999/jan/08son.htm (404 words)

	Perspective Plan for Dangs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		CEE was asked to prepare the perspective plan for the Dangs, a tribal districts of Gujarat, which comprises 311 villages and 70 Panchayats.
		The three-tier methodology (villagers, local government officials, and MP, MLA and Panchayat members) used for developing the five-year perspective plan for the Dangs aimed at integrating the perspectives of multiple stakeholders through participatory methods.
		Extensive literature study and consultative meetings with various experts were conducted to form an overall perspective of the history and current situation of the district.
	www.ceeindia.org /cee/archive/dang.htm (254 words)

	The Hindu : Peaceful Christmas in the Dangs
		Christians in the tribal-dominated Dangs district and other parts of south Gujarat celebrated an incident- free Christmas amid heavy police bandobust.
		Militant Hindu organisations such as the Hindu Jagran Manch and the Bajrang Dal, which are in a disarray following the BJP's electoral reverses in the recent panchayat elections, were not allowed to organise any programme this year.
		About 2,000 Christians took part in the Christmas mass at the CNI church, the main church in Ahwa, headquarters of the Dangs district.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/12/26/stories/0226000n.htm (184 words)

	DANGS : DANGER ZONE ONCE AGAIN
		The moot question that needs to be asked is “why the Dangs ?”. “why in 1998-99 and once again, now, in 2006 ?”.
		Dangs is the smallest of the districts of
		But the point of the Dangs is not about “conversion” (as the Hindu fundamentalists would like others to believe), but the fact is, that over a period of 30 years, the tribals have started becoming more and more empowered, thanks to the intervention in the field of education by Christian Missionaries.
	bocs.hu /india/dangs06-prakash.htm (522 words)

	Dang Darbar
		One of the most delightful districts of Gujarat is the area known as The Dangs.
		Located high in the Saputara hills, adjoining the borders of Maharashtra State, Dangs is the home of adivasis who have lived in the forests and highlands of the Dangs region from time immemorial.
		The Dangs Darbar is the name of the annual fair held in Ahwa every year, a few daysbefore Holi.
	www.gujaratplus.com /web/gujarat/festivals/dangs_darbar.htm (361 words)

	Defining the Value of Andean Biodiversity
		Singh's project caught the eye of S.K. Nanda, principal secretary of Gujarat state and guardian secretary of the Dang district, a rural region in southeastern Gujarat named for the local tribe, the Dangs.
		Nanda, whose doctoral thesis was on the migration habits of Indian tribes, has tried to build a traditional medicine industry in the district to stem the number of people who leave the area each year in search of migrant labor.
		In Dang district, there's a 130-bed Western-style hospital and pump water; residents in Patalkot see a visiting Western-trained doctor once a month and fetch their water from natural springs and brick wells.
	www.williams.edu /go/native/india-bioprospecting.htm (2005 words)

	Death Ends Fun: Reduction of faith
		The Christians in the Dangs district of Gujarat are indistinguishable from the non-Christians.
		Here in the Dangs, you see the state of these tribals in the Dangs and the propaganda is not funny in the least.
		But in the Dangs, the CD says and you're supposed to feel alarmed, they are about 5 per cent of the population of 200,000.
	dcubed.blogspot.com /2006/02/reduction-of-faith.html (2113 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Amritsar PLUS
		Out of the total pension of Rs 21,000 (Mr Dang receives Rs 13000 and Ms Dang gets Rs 8000 per month as MLA pension), they keep Rs 2000 each for which they are entitled as whole-time party CPI workers, while the rest of their income goes to the party coffers.
		In the words of Khushwant Singh, “Satyapal Dang and his wife Vimla Dang, nee Bakaya (the sub-caste of Ms Dang), lived in Chheharta, a suburban township near Amritsar, in the heat of the terrorism let loose by Bhindranwale supporters and protagonists of Khalistan.
		Later, Mr Dang was elevated to the post of general secretary of the federation in 1945, and he shifted to Mumbai — the headquarters of the party.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2005/20050203/aplus.htm (5316 words)

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