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  Gujarat Summary
The state of Gujarat is located on the west coast of India and is bounded by the Arabian Sea on the west, Pakistan in the north, and the states of Rajasthan in the northeast, Madhya Pradesh in the southeast, and Maharashtra in the south.
Gujarat borders Pakistan, and the states of Rajasthan to the north-east, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territories of Diu, Daman, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south.
Gujarat was a major center of Indian Ocean trade, and their capital at Anhilwara (Patan) was one of the largest cities in India, with a population estimated at 100,000 in the year 1000.
www.bookrags.com /Gujarat   (3715 words)

  
 <nettime> about recent violence in Gujarat
There are reports every where of gang-rape, of young girls and women, often in the presence of members of their families, followed by their murder by burning alive, or by bludgeoning with a hammer and in one case with a screw driver.
The blood of hundreds of innocents are on the hands of the police and civil authorities of Gujarat, and by sharing in a conspiracy of silence, on the entire higher bureaucracy of the country.
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 Finance Choices - Personal Finance Wiki
A branch of the Pratihara clan ruled Gujarat after the eighth century.From 8th century to until the invasion by the muslim rulers of Delhi, it was ruled by the Solanki dynasty.
Gujarat was hit with a devastating earthquake on January 26, 2001 at 8:46, which claimed a staggering 10,000 lives, injured another 30,000 people and severely affected the lives of forty million people in the region.
The Patel Jats of Gujarat are wealthy and landlords.
www.financechoices.co.uk /personal-finance-wiki.php?title=Gujarat   (3436 words)

  
 [Reader-list] Martha C. Nussbaum on the Genocide in Gujarat
One former chief justice of the Rajasthani High Court, living in retirement in Gujarat, fled, later commenting to an investigative tribunal that there was "a deliberate conspiracy to stifle criminal law." What this witness meant was that the carnage was aided and abetted both by the police and by local politicians.
The official Gujarat high school textbook on social studies for Class IX makes the blatantly false claim that in most states Hindus are in a minority and that Muslims, Christians, and Sikhs are in the majority-even though Hindus are approximately 85 percent of the population and Muslims less than 10 percent.
Gujarat has been unusually prone to outbreaks of both anti-Christian and anti-Muslim violence, and its elected BJP officials ran on a strong Hinduization platform.
mail.sarai.net /pipermail/reader-list/2003-August/002965.html   (4741 words)

  
 GCCI - Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry
The 34.3% growth in the primary sector was fuelled by a robust growth in agriculture sector, 3.8% in secondary sector and 6.5 % in the tertiary sector.
Gujarat tops the list of states in India in per capita GDP in the industrial sector.
The future of Gujarat is bright and promising but it will have to leverage it manufacturing edge by attracting investment both domestic and foreign, on massive scale and by expansion of production and productivity reducing costs and improving quality, enlargement of productive employment opportunities and enhancement of exports.
www.gujaratchamber.org /induspolicy01.htm   (1760 words)

  
 List of people from Gujarat
List of people from Gujarat is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Gujarat (Gu: ગુજરાત, De: गुजरात; Gujarāt, IPA [guɟra:t]; also spelled Gujrat and sometimes (incorrectly) Gujarath) is one of the Princely states of India, and it is the most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra.
Gujarat is home to the prestigeous Indian Institute of Management, located in the city of Ahmedabad.
www.experiencefestival.com /list_of_people_from_gujarat   (2263 words)

  
 Gujarat   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gujarat (ગુજરાત) is the most industrialized state in the Republic of India.
The Patel of Gujarat are wealthy and landlords.
Gujarat's 1600 km coastline is dotted with 41 ports (1 major, 11 intermediate and 29 minor).
www.haryana-online.com /gujarat.htm   (2754 words)

  
 Gujarat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1026, the famous Somnath temple in Gujarat was destroyed by Mahmud of Ghazni.
Gujarat is governed by a Legislative Assembly of 182 members.
Gujarat Science City [8], is a government initiative to draw more students towards education in Science, which hosts India's first IMAX 3D Theater, An Energy Park, A Hall of Science, An Amphitheater, And Dancing Musical fountains among others.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gujarat   (4026 words)

  
 GUJARAT ELECTION SHIFTS BALANCE OF POWER IN INDIAN POLITICS
Sunday 15 December 2002 was a long day for the people in Gujarat, the troubled state neighbouring Maharashtra and Rajasthan in the west of India, as they waited anxiously for the results of the state assembly elections.
Already the RSS and the VHP have clarified that the Gujarat victory is their first step towards creation of a "Hindu State", and that they intend to repeat the politics played in Gujarat to create the "Hindu Rashtra".
Peoples movements, trade unions, mass organizations also face a major challenge of not only being isolated but also of losing their base as the newly formed BJP government tries every trick to break and woo their mass support.
www.focusweb.org /publications/2002/gujarat-elections.htm   (1817 words)

  
 [A-List] THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT GUJARAT
People from outside the state were pursued to visit the overflowing of Narmada Dam and the comments of the tourists were telecasted in the electronic media.
In the mean while the Government of Gujarat was preparing for the mega show on the day of 15th August, which has become a normal practice of Modi for last five rears of his tenure to exhibit the so-called vibrant Gujarat.
Modi, in response to the severe flood situation and keeping an eye on the people of Gujarat, mentioned that Maharashtra is responsible for the present flood in Surat.
lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/a-list/2006-August/062003.html   (4219 words)

  
 Report of the visit by CPI(M) and AIDWA to Gujarat
In Gujarat the events are the bloody harvest of years of the systematic spread of communal poison and hatred against minority communities both Muslim and Christian by the constituents of the sangh parivar in the implementation of the political slogan of Hindu rashtra.
The people from the village who were in the hospital looking after their injured family members told us that they were attacked in their homes by many villagers including Thakeras.
Most of the people who live here are originally from Uttar Pradesh but have been in Ahmedabad for at least three generations since their ancestors had all come to work in the Ahmedabad textile industry.
www.sacw.net /Gujarat2002/CPMAIDWA2002gujaratreport.html   (9434 words)

  
 gujarat
Estimates of the number of people killed in ethnic violence in Gujarat since Feb. 27th 2002 vary from the most conservative official figure of 554 (later official figures are closer to 900) up to estimates, still considered conservative by some authors, of about 2000.
There are too many tales of people being tortured, women and children gang raped, people being trapped with dead bodies for days, children witnessing the loss of their entire families...
It is widely accepted by many commentators that what happened in Gujarat represents a turning point of some kind, not because of the extent or the brutality of the violence, but because of the organised nature of it, and the kind of state involvement witnessed.
www.kioni.u-net.com /stopwarfiles/gujarat.html   (6901 words)

  
 EKTA
This coalition emerged during the 2001 Gujarat earthquake and was able to orchestrate a coordinated response to the situation by pooling resources and expertise.
CI responded to the social crisis created by the recent communal holocaust in Gujarat by sending teams to various affected areas in order to provide for victims' immediate physical, medical and emotional needs.
As a result the people in these camps are in a very critical situation and need immediate support.
www.ektaonline.org /events/gujarat2002/ci.htm   (173 words)

  
 Feminist.com::: Report Says Women Targeted During India's Violence
In one terror-filled day, this Muslim mother saw her husband tortured and burned alive, her baby niece doused in gasoline and set on fire, her mother-in-law raped and teen-age girls in the neighborhood rounded up and stripped before being sexually abused in the street.
The violence in Gujarat began on Feb. 27, when a group of Hindu militants returning from a pilgrimage were attacked after their train stopped at the town of Godhra.
The women collecting testimony in Gujarat in March said they saw video footage of graffiti on charred buildings saying, "Muslims quit India or we will ---- your mothers!" Women told them of being gored in the stomach, having a fetus ripped out or having sticks inserted in their vaginas.
www.feminist.com /news/news46.html   (928 words)

  
 Gujarat
Gujarat borders the states of Rajasthan to the north-east, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the
Though mostly noted for their entrepreneurial spirit, people from Gujarat, also refered to as Gujarati (pl. Gujaratis), have also been leaders in the arts and the sciences.
The state of Rajasthan is to the northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and Maharashtra to the south and southeast of Gujarat.
www.vetty.com /wpcd/wp/g/Gujarat.htm   (2085 words)

  
 Onlinevolunteers.org - Gujarat Carnage: The Aftermath - Fact-Finding Reports 2002-2003
These human rights violations are being carried out in the context of a large number of arrests of individuals suspected of involvement in a range of alleged conspiracies against the state(1).
The 70-page report, Compounding Injustice: The Government's Failure to Redress Massacres in Gujarat, examines the record of state authorities in holding perpetrators accountable and providing humanitarian relief to victims of state-supported massacres of Muslims in February and March 2002.
NEW DELHI: The International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat, a body consisting of several Indian women's groups and activists from abroad, have demanded that the state government restore to the Muslims their rights to life, security and survival as guaranteed by the Constitution.
onlinevolunteers.org /gujarat/reports/index.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Earthquake Section at Gujarat Online
People over their have suffered "physically and financially" while we all here have suffered "emotionally." In the this critical moment of life, we fortunate brethren here are all with and for you.
Recent tragic events in Gujarat: I appreciate that you will have much more important matters to concern yourselves with at this time but I would just like to say that there are ordinary people out here in the Rest of the World whose thoughts are with you at this terrible time.
I hope you people are all safe and have not been badly affected by its devastation.
gujaratonline.com /newsroom/equake/maillist.htm?cache=none   (1640 words)

  
 India: Gujarat Massacre Cases Sabotaged - Human Rights Watch Report
The 70-page report, Compounding Injustice: The Government's Failure to Redress Massacres in Gujarat, examines the record of state authorities in holding perpetrators accountable and providing humanitarian relief to victims of state-supported massacres of Muslims in February and March 2002.
Most people interviewed by Human Rights Watch received negligible amounts to compensate for the destruction of their homes, ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand rupees, or less than one hundred dollars.
And the tragedy is that the people who ripped my daughter's child out of her body and killed her are walking about freely.
www.countercurrents.org /gujarat-hrw010703.htm   (1284 words)

  
 POLL-DELAY IN GUJARAT —An analysis
The on going debate on the timing of election in Gujarat has already generated lot of political heat in the country but the purpose for which the poll is delayed is perhaps defeated.
Contrary to general perception that Gujarat is a land of peaceful, tolerant, gentle and pragmatic people, the state as we see today is historically destined to live in a communally divided society.
The purpose behind postponement of election might have been to wait for normalization of communal situation in the state, but the way political parties and media are projecting the developments in Gujarat may not allow its people to overcome their communal trauma.
www.saag.org /papers6/paper518.html   (1916 words)

  
 Earthquake Section at Gujarat Online
People over their have suffered "physically and financially" while we all here have suffered "emotionally." In the this critical moment of life, we fortunate brethren here are all with and for you.
Recent tragic events in Gujarat: I appreciate that you will have much more important matters to concern yourselves with at this time but I would just like to say that there are ordinary people out here in the Rest of the World whose thoughts are with you at this terrible time.
I hope you people are all safe and have not been badly affected by its devastation.
www.gujaratonline.com /newsroom/equake/maillist.htm?cache=none   (1640 words)

  
 Crafts of Gujarat at ShalinCraft, India
Apart from dying and printing, the embroidery of Gujarat is remarkable and has its strong features and unique style that makes it distinct.
The evident artistically rich living of the common people is also very impressive with craft traditions, architecture, everyday objects and dress.
The king who ruled this region during the middle of the 18th century was the one who contributed the most to the art and craft of Kutch.
www.shalincraft-india.com /exploreindia/gujaratspec1.html   (395 words)

  
 List of people from Gujarat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of famous and notable people who can trace their ancestry to Gujarat, India.
This would include persons who are known to a large number of people and is not based on the extent of their popularity.
Neither is the list viewed from the context of the present.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_people_from_Gujarat   (282 words)

  
 Forensic team to probe phone calls
The Gujarat government has given the names of two cyber crime experts from the state Directorate of Forensic Science last week to the Nanavati-Shah riot inquiry panel to examine the controversial CD, that also contains the number of Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet ministers, sources in the Commission said.
The CD matter came to light when an IPS officer Rahul Sharma collected the entire list of phone calls made during that period from the cell phone companies and made it public that the local politicians were in touch with police and other's who were seen by many as leading rioting mobs.
Communal riots had erupted in many parts of Gujarat in 2002 after 59 kar sevaks were killed inside the S-6 coach of the Sabarmati express train at Godhra railway station on February 27 after it was attacked by a mob.
www.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=73856   (575 words)

  
 Gujarat Earthquake News Reports   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
People have been warned by the experts to stay away from the buildings since post-earthquake tremors measuring up to 5 to 6 on the Richter scale, may well cause further damage to the buildings.
Accommodation for the thousands of people staying outside their houses, feeding them and making other arrangements, especially in the present mid winter season is a colossal job.
In the smaller towns of Gujarat where the impact of the quake was far more devastating, there were examples of heroic rescue and relief operations taken by common people with little training or experience of working in emergency situations.
www.hssworld.org /homepage/html/seva/Gujarat/media_report.htm   (8379 words)

  
 The Hindu : Authorities failed to protect people in Gujarat: Amnesty
According to the update, "Indian authorities failed to protect people from communal violence which led to the deaths of hundreds of people and displacement of thousands'' in Gujarat.
Amnesty has recorded the growing discrimination against the Muslim community in the country in the wake of the September 11 attacks in the U.S., and the escalation of tension with the intensification of the VHP's campaign for the reconstruction of the Ram temple in Ayodhya.
Of the view that the "universality of human rights is facing the strongest challenge yet with double-speak and selectivity becoming the norm'', Amnesty has noted with concern the manner in which the governments rushed through anti-terrorism legislations in the name of security.
www.hinduonnet.com /2002/05/29/stories/2002052903611200.htm   (443 words)

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