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	Encyclopedia: Narmada River
		The Narmada Valley is a graben, a linear block of the earth's crust that dropped down relative to the blocks on either side due to ancient spreading of the earth's crust.
		Two normal faults, known as the Narmada North fault and Narmada South fault, parallel the river's course, and mark the boundary between the Narmada block and the Vindhya and Satpura blocks or horsts which rose relative to the Narmada Graben.
		The Tawa River is a tributary of the Narmada River of central India.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Narmada-River (1845 words)

	Narmada on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Because the river is turbulent and confined between steep banks, it is unsuitable for navigation or irrigation.
		However, the river is being developed for irrigation and hydroelectric power in a long-term project involving some 30 large, 135 medium, and 3,000 smaller dams and hundreds of miles of canals in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.
		The Narmada, sacred to Hindus, is said to have sprung from the body of the god Shiva ; a round-trip pilgrimage on foot along its entire length is highly esteemed.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/Narmada.asp (594 words)

	FRIENDS OF THE RIVER NARMADA: The Struggle Continues ...
		The construction of large dams on the River Narmada in central India and its impact on millions of people living in the river valley has become one of the most important social issues in contemporary India.
		The Friends of River Narmada is an international coalition of organisations and individuals (mostly of Indian descent).
		Narmada Waters are Rising: News from the Narmada Valley
	www.narmada.org (611 words)

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		The Shoolpaneshwar temple and the Adivasi village Manibeli are submerged in the reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar dam.
		NBA activist in boat with flag of Narmada Bachao Andolan in front of the large dam Sardar Sarovar in the Narmada valley.
		Woman crosses the Narmada river in front of Bargi dam, the first constructed large dam in the Narmada valley.
	www.visualindia.de /environment/narmada_gal.html (120 words)

	Narmada River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Narmada river is considered next only to river Ganga in terms of holiness
		Narmada is one of very ancient rivers and as per Hindu mythology it is flowing from 7 Kalpas
		Narmada river along with Vindhya range of mountains formed a sort of boundary between northern India (mainly the Gangetic Planes) and Southern India (The Deccan Plateau)
	www.bexley.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Narmada_River (607 words)

	Narmada - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Narmada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		River that rises in the Maikala range in Madhya Pradesh state, central India, and flows 1,245 km/778 mi west and southwest to the Gulf of Khambat, an inlet of the Arabian Sea.
		Forming the traditional boundary between Hindustan and Deccan, the Narmada is a holy river of the Hindus.
		The Narmada Valley Project involves the building of over 3,000 dams, many of them multi-purpose for water supply, flood control, and the generation of hydroelectricity, along the length of the Narmada River.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Narmada (133 words)

	Narmada River in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Narmada River is one of the major sacred rivers in India.
		It is said that the Narmada forgives a man of all his sins, and makes him pure, by her mere divine sight.
		But in reality, Narmada River originates from the Maikala ranges at Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh and flows westwards for a total distance of 1,312 km through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat before draining into the Gulf of Cambay, 50 km west of Bharuch.
	www.india9.com /i9show/17173.htm (183 words)

	Narmada Dam Project - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Narmada Dam Project, known officially as the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), is a project involving the construction of a series of large hydroelectric dams on the Narmada River in India.
		The Narmada dam is India's most controversial dam project and its environmental impact and net costs and benefits are widely debated.
		The Narmada Dam has been the center of controversy and protest since the late 1980s.
	www.open-encyclopedia.com /Narmada_Dam (173 words)

	India’s Greatest Planned Environmental Disaster: The Narmada Valley Dam Projects
		Damming the Narmada River will degrade the fertile agricultural soils due to continuous irrigation (rather the seasonal irrigation which is dependent on the monsoon), and salinization, making the soil toxic to many plant species.
		The Narmada River, on which the Indian government plans to build some 3,200 dams, flows through three states: Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Gujarat.
		The demonstrations, protests, rallies, hunger strikes, blockades, and written representations by Narmada Bachao Andolan have all made an impact on the direction of the movement to stop the building of large and small dams along the Narmada.
	www.umich.edu /~snre492/Jones/narmada.html (2594 words)

	SACRED RIVERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Narmada said that how could she descend to the earth without any base.
		In the present times, river Narmada has its source in the mountain series of ‘Maikal’ and it submerge into the ocean at ‘Bharonch’.
		Narmada is the most important river of Madhya-Pradesh and Western part part of India.
	www.urday.com /narmada.htm (349 words)

	Tourist Destinations in India : Rivers of India, Narmada River
		River Narmada is one of the most important sacred rivers flourishing mainly in Madhya Pradesh.
		The river Narmada descended from the sky as by the order of Lord Shiva.
		The Narmada absolves a man of all his sins, and makes him pure, by merely her divine sight.
	www.indiaplaces.com /india-tourist-destinations/major-india-rivers/Narmada-River.html (86 words)

	A Brief Introduction To The Narmada Issue
		Opponents of the dam question the basic assumptions of the Narmada Valley Development Plan and believe that its planning is unjust and inequitous and the cost-benefit analysis is grossly inflated in favour of building the dams.
		It is well established that the plans rest on untrue and unfounded assumptions of hydrology and seismicity of the area and the construction is causing large scale abuse of human rights and displacement of many poor and underprivileged communities.
		At a more abstract level, the questions that arise in the Narmada Struggle challenge the dominant model of development (of which Sardar Sarovar dam is a prime example) that holds out the chimerical promise of material wealth through modernisation but perpetuates an inequitous distribution of resources and wreaks social and environmental havoc.
	www.narmada.org /introduction.html (755 words)

	Under Siege in the Narmada Valley
		In the Narmada Valley, the government is seeking to wrench control over land and livelihood from its poorest citizens.
		Thirty large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams are planned on the Narmada River as she journeys through Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat.
		Following a writ petition by the Narmada Bachao Andolan in 1995, the Supreme Court of India limited the construction of the dam to 80.3 meters.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles5/Chatterji_Narmada.htm (920 words)

	Narmada River
		The Narmada river is not only utilized for irrigation, but for navigation In the rainy season boats of considerable size sail about 60 mi above Bharuch city.
		The Supreme Court in 1999 declared that the Dam should be completed and it slammed the Narmada Bachou Andolon for opposing the construction of the dam.
		In sanctity the Narmada ranks only second to the Ganges among the rivers of India, and along its whole course are special places of pilgrimage.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/n/na/narmada_river.html (425 words)

	New Internationalist: They only 'hold pen'.(dam on India's Narmada Ri... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE River Narmada slices across central India, a natural dividing line between north and south.
		The Narmada is the defining element in the landscape, the lives of whose inhabitants it has ruled materially and spiritually for thousands of years.
		That is one reason why the dams on the Narmada River are an affront.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77827035&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (1795 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: River Sutra, a (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A retired bureaucrat, initially ignorant of the river's bright and dark powers, hears these stories as he encounters their protagonists: a privileged young executive bewitched by a mysterious lover; a neophyte Jain monk moving from opulence to poverty; and an intense ascetic who resurfaces in a surprising reincarnation.
		In A River Sutra, the main character and narrator, whose name is perhaps Ashok, renounces the world and runs a resthouse near the Narmada River, the holiest river of India.
		Many may argue that the mutuality of the stories would lie in the River Narmada; although the river does flow throughout the novel and it is an obviously strong force in each traveler's tale, it does not function as aptly a unifier as the narrator.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/038547007X (1359 words)

	The Water Development Projects on the Narmada River of West India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most famous in the world outside of India is the river called Ganga in India and Ganges outside of India.
		In west India the Narmada is the major sacred river.
		A system of dams for the Narmada River was proposed and approved that will generate a substantial amount of electricity and provide water for irrigating millions of acres of crop land but will also flood 150 square miles of land and displace between 30 thousand and 100 thousand people.
	www.sjsu.edu /faculty/watkins/narmada.htm (331 words)

	The Hindu : Narmada revisited
		Along with its neighbouring villages, it was a key member of the Narmada Bachao Andolan and had remained steadfast in its opposition to the dam.
		We live in the belly of the river; the Narmada gives us everything we want." For Khajan and other adivasis, this landscape had produced the richly imagined and lived culture that formed their very being.
		I reached the Narmada at Kakrana, a village east of Anjanvara, and I was dismayed.
	www.hindu.com /mag/2004/01/04/stories/2004010400220200.htm (1695 words)

	Halt construction of dams on India's Narmada River
		Although, according to the "Friends of the River Narmada," it is the stated policy of the state governments to rehabilitate people with irrigated land for the land they lose, this has not taken place in many cases.
		The "Friends of the River Narmada" has documented numerous alternatives to the dams that are less ecologically destructive and would involve fewer displacements.
		We urge you to immediately halt construction of all dams in the Narmada Valley and to investigate and proceed with alternatives that are less devastating to the environment and to human rights.
	www.ipetitions.com /campaigns/StopIndianDams (410 words)

	NOVA \| Lost Roman Treasure \| Damming the Past: India \| PBS
		Scholars have studied India's Narmada River valley for more than 60 years and consider it to be one of the country's richest archeological regions.
		Since then, work has been underway to design and build on the river at least 30 large dams, 135 medium-sized dams, and nearly 3,000 small dams, which are used to channel water into thousands of miles of irrigation canals.
		But two of the largest dams—the Sardar Sarovar in Gujarat state and the Narmada Sagar in Madhya Pradesh—have yet to be built, and conservationists both in and outside of India have sharply critized both projects for the deleterious impact they will likely have on the valley's environment.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/zeugma/site_03.html (328 words)

	Narmada River -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		The Son valley is geologically almost a continuation of that of the Narmada River to the southwest.
		The principal tributary of the Paraná River, the Paraguay is the fifth largest river in South America.
		One of the major rivers of Central Africa, the Ubangi is the largest right-bank tributary of the Congo, or Zaire, River.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article?eu=398343 (939 words)

	Damming the Narmada River
		The Narmada River in its passage through the states of Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Gujarat, is the site of 30 large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams.
		The Narmada watershed is home to about 20 million peasants and adivasi people whose subsistence is critically linked to their land, forests and water.
		State sanctioned development in the Narmada Valley will leave the marginalised without the right to life and livelihood, resettled, at best, on lands unfit for cultivation, fleeing the present in squatter settlements and slums, scattered and nameless, with no past to remember or future to grasp.
	www.awakenedwoman.com /chatterji_narmada.htm (880 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. State Repression in the Narmada Valley
		illages on the Narmada river are frontlines in the struggle for cultural survival.
		ardar Sarovar is the largest dam on the Narmada, one of 30 large, 135 medium and 3,000 small dams planned on the river, whose watershed is home to about 20 million peasants and adivasis.
		Struggles over the shape of the Indian nation in the Narmada Valley, narrate the irrevocable depletion of the country's natural resource base and the brutalisation of the disenfranchised.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /112003/narmada.htm (1026 words)

	International Rivers Network: South Asia
		In the evening of April 7, 2005, when thousands of pilgrims were bathing in the Narmada River to celebrate a Hindu festival, the Indira Sagar Dam authorities suddenly discharged water from the reservoir.
		The 1,500 MW Nathpa Jhakri project is a hydropower scheme on the Sutlej river in Kinnaur and Shimla districts of Himachal Pradesh, in the foothills of the Himalayas.
		International Rivers Network reports on how the World Bank is implementing its Infrastructure Action Plan, and concludes that the new high–risk strategy "has not incorporated the lessons of past experience, will exacerbate conflicts, and will not help to reach the Millenium Development Goals".
	www.irn.org /programs/india (1375 words)

	New Internationalist: A temple too far.(dam on India's Narmada River)... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		THE temple at Maheshwar is one of the grandest on the whole Narmada river.
		Maheshwar is in the heart of the Nimad plains, a long stretch of fertile land watered by Narmada.
		Up the river from Pathrad, on the other side of the bank, is Mardana village, also slated for submergence.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:77827036&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (2205 words)

	National Catholic Reporter: Holy waters: a trip up the Narmada River
		They were never consulted about the dams and the Narmada Bachao Andolan regards the government's "development" project in the valley as a form of "internal colonialism, a snatching of natural resources for urban societies." Remarkably, their struggle has remained nonviolent.
		On Jan. 28, chief ministers from the river's three states were scheduled to vote on whether to approve elevating the dam another 33 feet.
		A young Adivasi woman, Murildhar is also a Narmada Bachao Andolan activist and the movement was delighted that one of their own would be able to represent "the cause" in a local political forum.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_24_40/ai_n6015090 (1447 words)

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