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	Rechnadoab Basin
		The gross area of the Doab is 2.97 million hectares,including 2.3 million hectares of cultivable land.
		The topography of the Rechna Doab is relatively flat with land surface gradient ranging from about 0.25 m per km.
		The Rechna Doab falls in the rice-wheat and sugarcane-wheat agro-ecological zones of the Punjab province.
	www.iwmi.cgiar.org /benchmark/Rechnadoab.htm (718 words)

	Punjab - LoveToKnow 1911
		Rechna Doab is the tract between the Ravi and the Chenab, embracing Sialkot and Gujranwala districts, with the trans-Ravi portions of the districts of the Bari Doab.
		By this treaty the Jullundur Doab and the hill district of Kangra were ceded to the British, also the possessions of the maharaja on the left bank of the Sutlej.
		For the government of the new province, including the Jullundur Doab, previously annexed, and the cis-Sutlej states, a board of administration was appointed consisting of three members.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Punjab (5030 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Doab
		A Doab, meaning "two waters" in Persian, is a term used in India and Pakistan for a tract of land between two confluent rivers.
		The Raichur Doab is the triangular region of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states which lies between the Krishna River and its tributary the Tungabhadra, named for the town of Raichur.
		A Doab, meaning "two waters" is a term used in India and Pakistan for a tract of land between two confluent rivers.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Doab (1820 words)

	DOAB - Online Information article about DOAB
		Ravi, the Rechna Doab between the Ravi and the See also:
		Chenab, the Jech Doab between the Chenab and See also:
		Sagar Doab between the Jhelum and the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DIO_DRO/DOAB.html (265 words)

	Panchala
		It has sometimes been identified with the Panjab, and with "a little territory in the more immediate neighbourhood of Hastinapur." Wilson says, "A country extending north and west from Delhi, from the foot of the Himalayas to the Chambal." It was divided into Northern and Southern Panchalas, and the Ganges separated them.
		Cunningham considers North Panchala to be Rohilkhand, and South Panchala the Gangetic Doab.
		The capital of the former was Ahichhatra, whose ruins are found near Ramnagar, and of the latter Kampilya, identical with the modern Kampila, on the old Ganges between Badaun and Farrukhabad.
	www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/panchala.htm (245 words)

	Crowsnest Highway
		On the Doab around the confluence of the Elk and the Kootenay, BC Fruit Farms marketed five-acre plots from 1912 on: $25 down and $12.50 per month interest free until the entire amount, $250, was cleared.
		Before the coming of the railroad, the place was known as “Crow’s Nest Landing,” where woodmen stacked cord upon cord of wood to feed the voracious fireboxes that heated the water to steam in the boilers of the riverboats that used to froth up and down the Kootenay River.
		On September 20th of that year he succeeded in leasing a timber berth on the Doab and, incorporating the North Star Lumber Company, set about erecting a sawmill on the southern side of the BC Southern right-of-way near what is now the Will-O-Bend, a planer mill at Elko, and another sawmill at Cranbrook.
	www.crowsnest-highway.ca /cgi-bin/citypage.pl?city=Kikomun_Doab (11843 words)

	USATODAY.com - Uncertainty, violence darken Afghans' hope (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DOAB, Afghanistan — For the first time, the girls in this village were starting to learn — reading, writing, geography, history, math, science.
		Noori, who was born and raised in Doab, became sympathetic to women's rights while he was in sixth grade.
		Noori hopes the Doab school will reopen in a few months: "We'll wait until the government gets a little stronger, and we can defend ourselves." He shrugs off the threat to his own safety.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2006-10-04-afghan-violence-cover_x.htm (2201 words)

	The Gazette :: Student wins trustee election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Well, Sarah Doab is an adult, but she is the youngest trustee ever elected to the Thames Valley District School Board.
		Doab is the youngest person to run for the TVDSB and was elected with 5,892 votes.
		Doab said in Grade 11, her high school’s parents’ council asked her to run in the next election because “students need a voice.”
	www.gazette.uwo.ca /articles.cfm?section=News&articleID=882&month=11&day=17&year=2006 (579 words)

	Allahabad- popularly known as Prayag and situated at the confluence of three holy rivers
		About 58 km northwest lies the medieval site of kara with the wreckage of historical Jayachand’s fort.Sringverpur another ancient town is discovered recently which has become a very major attraction for the tourists and antiqurian’s alike.
		Prayag is an extremely important and integral part of the Ganga Yamuna Doab.
		The Doab region was captured by a number of emperors and dynasties for a longer time.
	www.indiancity.com /allahabad.php (589 words)

	Analysis: Temple, allies fail to rescue BJP
		The Doab region had meanwhile been pretty much written off, with the BJP leadership mentally girding itself for a setback in an area that accounts for 76 seats.
		In the Doab, former chief minister Kalyan Singh had embarked on a vengeful mission of throwing a spanner into the BJP's works.
		And the former BJP leader had argued that if this backward community and region had thrown its weight behind the BJP, it was due to his presence.
	www.rediff.com /election/2002/feb/25_upr_shar_rep_1.htm (746 words)

	Dawn of a school year :: ABC Goldfields WA
		Ms Doab started her career as a lollipop lady in 1995 after moving to the Goldfields from Sydney.
		Ms Doab says the children just want to have a chat often revealing a little too much about their parents.
		As a retired pensioner, Ms Doab plans to continue to serve as a lollipop lady for as long as possible.
	www.abc.net.au /goldfields/stories/s1837231.htm (304 words)

	About Saharanpur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Saharanpur forms the most northerly position of the Doab land that stretches between the holy rivers of the Ganges and the Yamuna, the Shivalik hills rise above it on the northern frontier.
		The portion of Doab in which Saharanpur is situated was probably one of the first region of upper India occupied by the Aryans colonisers as they spread eastward from the Punjab.
		As regards its physical features, the north and the north east of the district is surrounded by Shivalik hills and separates it from the Dehradun district in the recently created state of Uttranchal.
	www.saharanpurcluster.org /about.htm (1040 words)

	HIMAL SOUTHASIAN \| October 2006
		Geographically, Allahabad is an integral part of the Ganga-Yamuna Doab, as it is situated at the confluence of the two rivers.
		At its north and northeast lies the Awadhi region, while to its west are other areas of the lower Doab.
		As a distinct region, Allahabad’s history is tied with that of the Doab rather than that of Purvanchal.
	www.himalmag.com /2006/october/mail.htm (741 words)

	ReliefWeb » Professional Resources » Vacancies
		Since 2005, a female technician is working in Doab in order to involve women in the activities.
		Moreover SOLIDARITES is implementing the National Solidarity Program in Roy e Doab district as well, project for which one expatriate is in charge with the respective technical team.
		The 2005 internship has been organized in partnership with Groupe URD, and the present internship is forecast to be implemented with the same methodology, Groupe URD being the internship director, and SOLIDARITES being the intern host and facilitator.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/res.nsf/db900SID/OCHA-6KYGUV?OpenDocument (906 words)

	zeenews.com » up election 2007 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Aryans first inhabited the Doab region and the Ghagra plains and called it the Madhya Desha (midland) or Aryavarta (the Aryan land) or Bharatvarsha (the kingdom of Bharat, an important Aryan king).
		The Kannauj Empire originated from the heart of the Ganga Yamuna Doab and during the reign of Harshavardhana extended its territories from Afghanistan to Kashmir, Bengal and the Vindhyas.
		Even when the empire disintegrated, this part, between the Doab region and Delhi, remained their last territory.
	www.zeenews.com /uppoll/fullstory.asp?aid=364725&sid=UPE (1183 words)

	Tourism
		Under the Mughal Emperors, Jalandhar was always the capital of the northern and most important portion of the Jalandhar Doab which then extended to the neighbourhood of Multan, in fact of the whole of the Doab, as it is now constituted.
		In 1811, Diwan Mohkam Chand was sent by Maharaja Ranjit Singh to annex the Faizullapuria possession in the Jalandhar Doab and Sardar Budh singh fled to his protected possession across the Satluj.
		From this time, it was the capital of the possessions of the Lahore State in the Jalandhur Doab until annexation to the British dominions after the First Anglo Sikh War,1845-46.
	jalandhar.nic.in /html/tourism.htm (1711 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is possible to re-construct a proto-Indian idiom or lingua franca of circa the centuries traversed by the Sarasvati-Sindhu doab civilization (c.
		India is a linguistic area nurtured in the cradle of the Sarasvati-Sindhu doab civilization.
		Cognates do not have to be concordant in phonetic and morphological forms; cognates have to be concordant in phonetic and semantic forms to suggest linguistic affinity among dialects of a language family.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/dictionary/0000intro.htm (7701 words)

	India Information >> Great Cities of Punjab
		Pathankot situated at the foot of hills and near the head of Bari Doab canal, is connected by rail and road with the rest of the country.
		Egerton, a Christian missionary established Egerton Woolen Mills in 1882 on the banks of a branch of Upper Bari Doab canal.
		Upper Bari Doab canal was dug out in 1855 to irrigate the Districts of Gurdaspur and Amritsar.
	www.whereincity.com /india/punjab/other-cities.php (5275 words)

	[No title]
		Board policy DOAB (Local) required Obregon to apply specified criteria in a specified sequence, set forth in DOAB (Local), in order to select within the targeted employment areas the individuals to be terminated.
		Board policy DOAB (Local) further required Obregon to consider Martinez and Talamantez for transfer to any vacant position for which they were qualified.
		The decision of the board of trustees of AISD to nonrenew Petitioner Martinez was arbitrary and capricious.
	www.tea.state.tx.us /commissioner/1995/397595.DOC (1284 words)

	Majha - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		Strictly speaking, though, the northeastern half of Rachna Doab is traditionally called Darap, and the southwestern half forms part of the Sandal Bar.
		However, in the context of the present Punjab where bulk of the Sikh population is concentrated, Majha comprises only two of the 17 districts, Amritsar and Gurdaspur, of the state.
		With a richly productive soil and watered by the upper Bari Doab canal and thousands of wells and tube-wells, the two Majha districts produce a variety of crops, principal among them being rice, wheat and maize.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Majha (586 words)

	Please click the following Tende
		Improvement to Parapokhari Drainage Cut in Basudevpur Block of Bhadrak District in Kansabansa-Mantei Doab No.XI from R.D. 1500 to 10850 Mtr.
		Improvement to Parapokhari Drainage Cut in Basudevpur Block of Bhadrak District in Kansabansa-Mantei Doab No.XI from R.D. 10850 to 16000 Mtr.
		Improvement of Reba Drainage Channel (HLC Range-III to NH.5) in Bhandaripokhari Block of Bhadrak District in Baitarani-Salandi Doab No.XIII.
	www.orissa.gov.in /tender/newtender/wr225.htm (904 words)

	CGIAR System-wide Program: Collective Action & Property Rights -- Agenda Workshop on Technology Adoption
		Estimates are made regarding the operational distribution of tenurial classes in the Rechna Doab across different districts and their relationship with unused cultivable lands.
		The regression results of the log linear functional form revealed that in the case of wheat and cotton crops, constant returns to scale prevail on the owner farms while decreasing returns to scale are observed on the OCT and tenant farms in the Rechna Doab.
		The yields from cotton are estimated to be 7 percent and 16 percent more and the net returns 13 percent and 22 percent more on the owner farms as compared to the OCT and tenant farms, respectively.
	www.capri.cgiar.org /wsprog112297.asp (5313 words)

	The Aryans
		These economic classes were legitimated by an elaborate religious system and would be eventually subdivided into a huge number of economic sub-classes which we call "castes." Social class by the end of the Rigvedic period became completely inflexible; there was no such thing as social mobility.
		It was a difficult project, for the Doab was thickly forested; the Aryans slowly burned and settled the Doab until they reached the Ganges.
		While the Rig Veda represents the most primitive religion of the Aryans during the Rigvedic Period, the religion of the Later Vedic period is dominated by the Brahmanas, or priestly book, which was composed sometime between 1000 and 850 BC.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/ANCINDIA/ARYANS.HTM (1293 words)

	Ramgarhia Sabha Southall - Serving the Community
		They would be able to live in peace in Jallandhar Doab, particularly when Zakaria Khan was murdering them in thousands everyday in Bari Doab.
		It is said that he administered the area under his control so efficiently that people were very happy and enjoyed benefits of peace in his area, so much so that after Adina Beg's death when Jassa Singh tried to conquer these areas independently, he had no difficulty in getting them.
		Lakhpat Rai, whose brother Jaspat Rai was killed in a battle against the Sikhs, decided to avenge the death of his brother by putting an end to all the Sikhs, by whatever means possible.
	www.ramgarhia.org /history/jfullp2.html (1313 words)

	SikhLionz.com: Foundation of Amritsar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		His followers were increasing year by year, not only in the Bari Doab (doab means area betweeen two rivers, ba for river Beus and Ra for river Ravi denotes BARI DOAB) but also elsewhere, even outside the Punjab.
		Guru Arjan founded other towns, like Tarn Taran in the Bari Doab and Kartarpur in the dist Jalandhar, but the praises he has sung of the institution of amritsar make it evident that no other place was to be regarded as comparable with it.
		As the informal capital of the Khalsa it was bound to become the target of enemy attack sooner or later in a long war fought to the finish.
	rajkaregakhalsa.net /sikhlionz/foundationofamritsar.htm (11338 words)

	Subproject 1: Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project and the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Project Preparation ...
		The Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Project Preparation Facility (PIAPPF) will ensure that (i) forthcoming projects are expeditiously prepared to fully utilize Program resources, (ii) future projects are well designed and meet ADB guidelines, and (iii) the PIAIP is well managed.
		Subproject 1: Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project and the Punjab Irrigated Agriculture Project Preparation Facility : Pakistan
		The project will provide rehabilitation and upgrading for the Lower Bari Doab Canal System in Punjab and rehabilitate infrastructure from the headworks of the Baloki Barrage to the minor canals as well as address on-farm water management activities and groundwater management.
	www.adb.org /Documents/PIDs/37231023.asp (264 words)

	The script decipherment problem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A cooperative society and a continuous culture had existed right from the chalcolithic- age through the bronze-age to the historical periods on the Sarasvati-Sindhu doab and the rest of India.
		A lingua franca had emerged in the doab ca.
		The formulation of these hypotheses is a plea for unravelling further the as yet untold story of the formation of Indian languages as an exercise in general semantics.
	www.hindunet.org /saraswati/signs/script1.html (541 words)

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