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  Jashpur - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JASHPUR, a tributary state of India, in the Central Provinces, having been transferred from Bengal in 1905.
The only river of importance is the Ib, in the bed of which diamonds are found, while from time immemorial its sands have been washed for gold.
Jashpur iron, smelted by the Kols, is highly prized.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Jashpur   (154 words)

  
 About District : Jashpur
Jashpur district is divided in two parts as per the geographical point of views.The hilly belt,the northern part, running from Loroghat kastura,Narayanpur,Bagicha up to the Surguja district.This belt having forest area.It has a reserve forest also.
Kunkuri is the hottest region in nichghat during summer and Pandrapat is the coldest region in uppar ghat in winter.
Every down slops starts from the patthar or hill but even of the hilly area Jashpur district level is sharing from a plane field area.Just from a point water flows in two direction.One is in the north and second is in the south.
www.indianngos.com /districts/jashpur_about.htm   (833 words)

  
 REPLIES TO QUESTIONNAIRE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The figure of the population of Christians in Jashpur sub-division as shown in the Census Report of 1951 is a surprise.
According to the Census of 1941 the population or Lutheran Christians in Jashpur sub-division was 6,165.
Jashpur was the first target of attack by the missionaries and all that took place here entailed a risk on the part of the British Government to support indiscriminately the missionaries.
www.bharatvani.org /books/ncr/41viirep.htm   (14442 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation
Jashpur, Nov. 28: Besides the Tehelka-like scandal, Dilip Singh Judeo’s claim to fame might well be his focus on “ghar-wapasi” (re-conversion) of Adivasis who had embraced Christianity.
The BJP is trying to encash Judeo’s charisma as the scion of Jashpur Palace to the hilt, pitting it against the development record of the Ajit Jogi government and even bigger promises of things to come if the Congress is voted to power.
Jogi, too, realises that Jashpur is a prestige battle and is campaigning in the region.
www.telegraphindia.com /1031129/asp/nation/story_2624487.asp   (616 words)

  
 Activities of Christian Missions in the Eastern States and Proselytism in the Udaipur State
The first mention on the Agency record of the work of the missionaries in Jashpur is contained in a memorandum made by the Commissioner of Chhattisgarh in 1903 on the subject of a conversation he had had with the Diwan of Jashpur.
Sir Benjamin Robertson left it on record that the Raja of Jashpur was a very well disposed and kind Ruler, He made a note of an interview he had had with the Archbishop of Calcutta and wrote that he had had to disabuse the Archbishop of his idea that the State was British territory.
In July an Englishman, who had been in Jashpur in connection with the recruitment of coolies for the tea-gardens in Assam, reported to the Political Agent that there was a dangerous movement amongst mission preachers in the State and that secret societies had been formed.
www.bharatvani.org /books/ncr/61viib18.htm   (15313 words)

  
 Two die in Chhattisgarh maoist attack | India Defence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jashpur: Communist Party of India (Maoist) cadres today attacked a police outpost here in Chhattisgarh, bordering Jharkhand, killing two policemen and injuring 12 others.
According to police in the neighbouring Raigarh district, senior civil and police authorities were on their way to the village from Jashpur and additional police force had been rushed to the area to carryout combing operation to flush out the naxalites.
All the injured security personnel were rushed to the Jashpur district hospital while the seriously wounded were being referred to the State Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS) at Bilaspur.
www.india-defence.com /print/1309   (227 words)

  
 Hindu Campaigners Combat Christian Conversions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Christian missionaries first rode to the remote town of Jashpur on horseback 150 years ago, educating the poor and converting them in their thousands.
In the lush green rolling hills of Jashpur, whose thick forests were once a hunting paradise for its maharajahs, the Gujarat riots and political rivalries seem far away.
The men use bows and arrows to catch animals; the children are dressed in rags barely covering their swollen bellies.
www.hvk.org /articles/0303/191.html   (953 words)

  
 Chhattisgard - Jashpur
Located to the north of Chhattisgarh, Jashpur is home to the Oraon tribe, many of whom have converted to Christianity.
About 40 km from Jashpur, this is Asia's second largest Catholic church.
It was 15 years in the making, and when completed (in 1968), it was Asia's largest church, with a seating capacity of 5,000.
cgforest.nic.in /tourism/jashpur.htm   (227 words)

  
 Chhattisgarh: Judeo's son arrested
On the eve of polling in Chhattisgarh, police arrested Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dilip Singh Judeo's son, Yudhveer Judeo, for allegedly disturbing the peace in Jashpur district while a Congress worker was gunned down in Bilaspur.
Jashpur Superintendent of Police M P Choudhary told PTI over phone that Yudhveer and his supporters were arrested from the outskirts of the Jashpur district headquarters following complaints by several people and political workers opposed to Judeo.
He and the others were not allowing flags of parties other than the BJP to be put on vehicles and allegedly deflated the tyres of some vehicles and broke their windshields, the SP said.
www.rediff.com /election/2003/nov/30chhat.htm?zcc=ar   (339 words)

  
 The Hindu : Jashpur: A turf for `holy war'
The missionaries came to Jashpur and its adjoining areas of Surguja and Raigarh way back in 1845 when they operated from Ranchi in the Chhota Nagpur region.
It was Father Lewis who gave a boost to the Catholic movement in the region in 1885 and built a GEL church in Chhota Nagpur.
The oldest church of Jashpur is a little distance away from Kunkuri and it came up in 1906 when the Bishop was based in Ranchi.
www.hindu.com /thehindu/2002/11/21/stories/2002112106730500.htm   (674 words)

  
 Taming the fierce -- Govt brings tribals closer to farming   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JASHPUR (MP), JULY 17: They are a hunting tribe on the cusp of change, but the transition is unbearably painful.
Although the intervening years might have mellowed them, the Pahadi Korwas, inhabiting the hilly regions of Jashpur and Sarguja districts of Madhya Pradesh were so fierce once that they had struck terror in the hearts of the plainsmen.
Now with the forest department making its intentions quite clear of chasing tribals out of protected forest area around Badalkhol sanctuary in Jashpur according to Centre's directive to protect forest and wildlife, the Pahadi Korwas are waging a losing battle for survival.
www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/20000718/ina18019.html   (658 words)

  
 Jashpur District - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jashpur District in the state of Chhattisgarh in India is divided in two parts from the geographical point of views.
In Jashpur Raigarh road there are two more ghats, Jhanda bhat before Kansabel and Belaghat after Kansabel.
The main towns situated on the national highway (N.H.78) are Ludam, Gholeng, and Jashpur in the Upper ghat and Kunkuri, Bandarchuwan, Kansabel, Ludeg, and Patthalgaon.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jashpur_District   (297 words)

  
 Traditional medicinal knowledge about common herbs in Chhattisgarh, India : Interactions with the small herb traders of ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The vegetable is consumed for its unique taste but the small herb traders of Jashpur region are aware of health benefits of this vegetable.
The herb traders of Jashpur region are aware of many uses of Zeera (Cumin) also.
The herb traders of Jashpur region are aware of use of all parts of Neem as medicine.
www.botanical.com /site/column_poudhia/articles/996.html   (604 words)

  
 The Hindu : Royal families hold the key here
While the royalties themselves are contesting in many of these constituencies, where members of the royal families cannot contest due to reservation, their chosen ones have always been given the tickets.
Beginning with Jashpur — the erstwhile principality of the now controversial former Minister of State for Environment and Forests, Dilip Singh Judev — the four assembly seats have traditionally been Bharatiya Janata Party strongholds despite a massive tribal and scheduled caste population and the `anti-conversion' movement being initiated from here.
All seats in this district are reserved and hence members of the Judev family cannot contest, though the candidates are decided with the approval of the palace.
www.hindu.com /2003/11/24/stories/2003112405171200.htm   (777 words)

  
 :: SECULAR INDIA ::..
JASHPUR NAGAR, April 9: BJP president Rajnath Singh dared Christian missionaries to "try converting any Hindu" and vowed to turn tables on them today.
The BJP president, who had been speaking at a string of public meetings on his way to Jashpur Nagar from Raigad in course of his Bharat Suraksha Yatra, turned unusually aggressive after entering the domain of Dalip Singh Judeo, who spearheads the Sangh Parivar's "Ghar Vapsi" (reconversion) programme among Adivasis.
Be it Dharamjaigarh, Pathalgaon, Kasabel, Kunkuri or Jashpur, Singh had a single theme: Those who are converting Hindus, take heed.
www.secularindia.com /news/2006/04/13BJP.htm   (397 words)

  
 Planet Ark : FEATURE - Uproar in India as captured elephant dies in despair
JASHPUR, India - His skin rubbed raw from chafing against ropes tying his front and back legs to tree-trunks, the newly caught wild elephant hangs his head in what looks like abject despair.
Reverentially, the local people dig a deep pit for him, cover his body with a white sheet, fling in flowers and grimly start shovelling earth into the grave of an elephant who wildlife campaigners say was tortured to death.
The story started in the thickly forested hills of the former principality of Jashpur, in the central state of Chhattisgarh and around 930 km (580 miles) south-east of New Delhi, when a herd of wild elephants strayed in from a neighbouring state.
www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/20154/story.htm   (1134 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Bishop Victor Kindo, 59, who had been heading the 55-year-old Raigarh diocese, was installed as the first Bishop of Jashpur – bifurcated from Raigarh – at a ceremony held at Kunkuri, the diocesan headquarters, May 25.
Belgian Jesuit missioners from the neighbouring Ranchi Diocese sowed the Christian Faith in the region with much persecution by the rulers of Jashpur.
Jashpur Diocese, consisting of the Jashpur civil district, has about 185,500 Catholics, mostly tribal Oraons, in 50 parishes.
www.cbcisite.com /cbcinews948.htm   (404 words)

  
 JASHPUR
PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY: The state of Jashpur was ceded to the British Government by the provisional agreement concluded with Mudhoji Bhonsle in 1818.
Although noticed in the second part of this agreement as a separate state, it was at first treated as a fief of Surguja to some measure.
President, Municipal Board, Jashpur, 1975/82; Vice-President, Bharatiya Janata Party, Madhya Pradesh; previously associated with Bharatiya Jana Sangh; Member of the R.S.S., Vishwa Hindu Parishad, 9th Lok Sabha, Committee on Commerce and Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Coal; elected to the Rajya Sabha in June, 1992 and re-elected in June, 1998.
www.uq.net.au /~zzhsoszy/ips/j/jashpur.html   (305 words)

  
 Official Website of Kendriya Vidyalaya Jashpur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
KV Jashpur is a Civil Sector segment of Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan New Delhi, Under the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, Govt.
Spawning in an arcade of 15 Acres it houses classes I to VII with stream at +2 level.
KV Jashpur is in Jashpur District of Chattisgarh with Station code 303, KV Code 1566 and CBSE Code NA.
kvjashpur.com   (120 words)

  
 Diamond war brewing in Chhattisgarh-India-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
State principal secretary for mining Shivraj Singh has said De Beers was allowed permission to explore for diamonds in January 2003 and the company informed the government that it had located a huge chunk of timberlite rocks in Durg district after completing the third phase of the aerial survey.
The government has also given the go-ahead to Meera Exploration Pvt Ltd to hunt for diamonds in a 481 sq km area in Rajnandgaon district and Emperor Granite Pvt Ltd 1,000 sq km area in Kanker district.
The company has been working on diamond exploration in 2,800 sq km in Jashpur, 800 sq km in Mahasamund and 1,360 sq km in Raipur, Dhamtari and Kanker districts.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-716401,prtpage-1.cms   (429 words)

  
 Villagers take out rally against tusker atrocities - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But in Dilip Singh Judev’s home district Jashpur, the villagers demonstrated against the atrocities of tuskers, that have made their lives miserable in the recent past.
Bordering with Jharkhand, Jashpur has not just naxalites as trespassers but also the tuskers, which are playing havoc in several villages, located in the dense forest.
Enraged over the sudden attack, the villagers under the banner of Jashpur Kisaan Sangh had a meeting and then organised a rally to the district headquarters where they submitted a memorandum to the district collector and raised slogans seeking administration’s help to prevent them from pachyderm atrocities.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/aug172005/national1455322005816.asp   (501 words)

  
 Jashpur Travel Guide - Jashpur Travel and Tourism, Visit Jashpur India, Tourist Places in Jashpur, Jashpur Travel, ...
Jashpur district is a beautiful hilly district of Chhattisgarh.
The topography of Jashpur comprises of two parts - the Upper Ghat and the Lower Ghat.
Jashpur is also one of the most fascinating tribal districts of central India and is home to the famous Uraon tribes.
travel.sulekha.com /chattisgarh/jashpur.aspx   (305 words)

  
 Chhatisgarh Under The Tusker's Feet - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
For 15-year-old Ramsingh Pando of Sanna block in Jashpur district it was like the final summon when he had an encounter with the wild tuskers around six months ago.
The rally was to protest the atrocities of jumbos.
The tuskers may be finding solace in Chhattisgarh but for the residents of Jashpur, Sarguja, Raigarh and Korba districts, they are the unwelcome guests who are coming to their villages to put them in great trouble.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/may172006/panorama1749202006516.asp   (646 words)

  
 Rajnath praises rebels Judeo, Sai-India-NEWS-The Times of India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
JASHPUR: Fear of dissidents joining the Uma Bharati camp figured high during BJP president Rajnath Singh's yatra through Chhattisgarh.
The BJP chief addressed three public meetings in Jashpur — at Pathalgaon, Kunkuri and Jashpurnagar — the bastion of Judeo.
The latter has been sidelined after he was caught on-camera receiving bribe for a deal in New Delhi.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/1485469.cms   (340 words)

  
 Chhattisgarh to be world's diamond bowl
Rio Tinto has obtained an aerial survey license for parts of Jashpur, Mahasamund and Raipur districts.
Geo Mysore Services India has been prospecting in Kanker, Rajnandgaon and Jashpur regions, while Admas Prospecting Pvt.
The Jindal Steel and Power Ltd (JSPL), which has a major industrial complex in Raigarh district, has also submitted a proposal for a diamond survey in Jashpur.
www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press548.htm   (369 words)

  
 The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2003
But it is not pure entertainment as half way through the movie comes the footage of the controversy, which the Congress wants to take to every resident of this tribal district.
Congress leaders of Jashpur can be found carrying footage of the controversy in compact discs.
Sai, an MLA from Tapkara seat in Jashpur district, is now the BJP candidate against Mr Jogi in Marwahi.
www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031121/nation1.htm   (4886 words)

  
 Print Article - What the quota panel told the government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Similarly, Geo Mysore Services India is scouting in a 1,220-sq km area in Kanker, 500 sq km in Rajnandgaon and 1,475 sq km in Jashpur.
Even latecomer ACC Rio Tinto Exploration Pvt Ltd has completed a first-phase survey with positive findings in 2,800 sq km in Jashpur, Mahasamund, Dhamtari, Kanker and Raipur districts.
Encouraged by reports of diamond deposits, the government had set up the State Mining Development Corporation (SMDC) earlier this month to carry out diamond exploration and mining in joint ventures.
www.siliconindia.com /print_article.php?26112   (347 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Jamshedpur
People of about 30 villages located on Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh borders will be meeting on Thursday to chalk out a strategy for pushing back tuskers, unleashing a reign of terror in the area, to their native state.
has also decided to assist the villagers in their efforts to keep Jashpur free from Jharkhand tuskers.
District collector Durgesh Mishra and superintendent of police Purushottam Gautam have held a series of meetings with villagers in the last one week in this connection.
www.telegraphindia.com /1050825/asp/jamshedpur/story_5153732.asp   (417 words)

  
 Jashpur District Chhattisgarh - NIC District unit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
NIC District unit was formally set up in November 1999, soon after the declaration of newly created district, Jashpur.
The district of Jashpur is a border district of CHATTISGARH and adjacent to JHARKHAND.It’s a tribal district.
After the installation of Land record data of the Jashpur Tehsil, many consumers are coming to get their Khasra and B1 nakal in a nominal price of rupees Rs.15/- per Khasra.
jashpur.gov.in /nic.htm   (173 words)

  
 VATICAN RADIO - OFFICIAL WEB SITE
Pope Benedict XVI erects the Diocese of Jashpur in India and appoints a new bishop to the diocese of Raigarh
Pope Benedict then appointed Bishop Victor Kindo as the first bishop of the newly erected diocese of Jashpur.
Geographically the new diocese of Jashpur comprises of the entire civil District of Jashpur of the State of Chhattisgarh, and is confined to the West and North with the Diocese of Ambikapur, to East with the Diocese of Gumla, and to South with the mother-Diocese of Raigarh.
www.oecumene.radiovaticana.org /in2/Articolo.asp?c=71807   (260 words)

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