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	Kanara - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		KANARA, or Canara, the name of two adjoining districts of British India: North Kanara in the presidency of Bombay, South Kanara in that of Madras.
		North Kanara District forms part of the southern division of Bombay.
		The main feature in the physical geography of the district is the range of the Western Ghats, which, running from north to south, divides it into two parts, a lowland or coast strip (Payanghat), and an upland plateau (Balaghat).
	www.1911ency.org /K/KA/KANARA.htm (549 words)

	NORTH KANARA DISTRICT - Online Information article about NORTH KANARA DISTRICT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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		line is only broken by the Karwar headland in the north, and by the estuaries of four See also:
		principal ones, proceeding from north to south, are the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /NEW_NUM/NORTH_KANARA_DISTRICT.html (634 words)

	Cashew Industry - udupipages.com
		Now, nearly 80 per cent of this industry in India is centered in and around Quilon in the Kerala State, and South Kanara accounts for about 12 per cent (on the basis of the exports made by the factories).
		The area under cashew nut cultivation in the district in 1971-72 was 1,00,94 acres.
		North Kanara nuts, which resemble those grown in Kundapura but are not so good as the local nuts.
	www.udupipages.com /home/ind/cashew.html (1014 words)

	Open Directory - Regional:Asia:India:Karnataka:Districts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The district is situated between 14° 30’ and 15°50’ north latitude and 75°40’ and 77°11’ east longitude.
		This district is bounded by Raichur district on the north by Dharwad district on the west, Chitradurga and Davangere districts on the south and Anantapur, Kurnool districts of Andhra Pradesh on east.
		The Vaishnavite town of Udupi is 58km north of Mangalore on the coastal road.
	dmoz.org /Regional/Asia/India/Karnataka/Districts/desc.html (975 words)

	Western Ghats @ CES : A Hot Spot of Aromatic & Medicinal Plants
		Vibhooti falls is 50Kms from Sirsi in North Kanara district and is around 8kms away from the Yana.
		Waate HaLLa falls is 30+Kms from Sirsi in North Kanara district.
		This waterfall is in a unique point of Western Ghats, on the border of three taluqs of North Kanara district (Sirsi, Yellapur, Ankola).
	ces.iisc.ernet.in /biodiversity/documents/places.htm (4871 words)

	International Goan Convention ~ PRE-PORTUGUESE CULTURE OF GOA
		It was constructed by Tippoja, the architect of God Bankesvara at the command of Kamala Devi, the queen of the Goa Kadamba King Sivachitta, in the middle of the 12th century.
		The temple is rectangular in shape and consists of three cells with the pillared hall running from North to South in front of the shrines on the west side.
		In the inscriptions, for instance, of the Shilaharas of North Konkan, the nakhara or trade guild of these merchants called anjuman which appears in these records in its sanscritized form of Hanjumana - is ranked with the three vargas, namely the three higher orders of Hindu society.
	www.goacom.com /community/associations/goaont/convention/moraes.htm (4017 words)

	Kanara (Nuttall Encyclopædia)
		/ · 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge · K · Kanara
		Kanara, a rainy district on the W. coast of India, between Goa and Malabar, mostly malarial forest country, with the Ghat Mountains and many rivers.
		South Kanara (1,056), capital Mangalore, is in Madras.
	www.fromoldbooks.org /Wood-NuttallEncyclopaedia/k/kanara.html (81 words)

	Saraswat history
		The Brahmins that lived to the north of the Vindhyas were referred to as Gowda Brahmins, whereas the Brahmins who lived to the south of the Vindhyas were referred to as Dravida Brahmins.
		Once they had migrated to the Kanara district, the Shenvis were not able to sustain their unity with the Saraswat Brahmins they had left behind in Goa.
		Sringeri Shankaracharya mutt in the Kanara district was asked for their consent of the new guru which was granted.
	www.gsbkerala.com /gsbhistory.htm (7277 words)

	Turning over a curry leaf
		MINERAL prospectors in North Kanara have long believed that plants like `Karipatta', whose leaves (curry leaves) are used to flavour many South Indian dishes, can be good indicators for the presence of deposits of minerals, especially manganese.
		Dr Kariyanna, who was participating at a meeting of the Indian Society of Applied Geochemists at the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI), said the people of North Kanara associate several plants, locally called Nama, Kundal and Jamka, with the presence of mineral deposits.
		The North Kanara belt in the Karnataka craton, according to geologists, is bestowed with manganese, iron, copper and traces of magnetite and nickel.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2001/08/16/stories/14163406.htm (367 words)

	TibetNet - Department of Home
		It is about 267 miles north of Bylakuppe and about 32 miles south of Hubli, the nearest railway station.
		Hubli is 404 Km North east of Bangalore City and is linked by meter-gauge railway and is on the Bangalore-Pune National Highway.
		The altitude at Mundgod is approximately 1800 ft. above sea level and the temperature ranges between 78 degree-90 degree Fahrenheit with an average rainfall of 42" to 45" annually.
	www.tibet.net /home/eng/settlements/doegu (856 words)

	Udupi
		From Gokarna in the north of Tulunad to Subrahmanya in the south is a distance of some 200 miles.
		Gokarna is in North Kanara while Udupi, Subrahmanya, Kumbhasi, Koteswar, Shankaranarayana and Kollur are in South Kanara.
		Gokarna is in the region of one hundred miles to the north of Udupi and Subrahmanya approximately one hundred miles to the south.
	www.dvaita.org /madhva/udupi/udupi.html (1795 words)

	Magod Falls is a waterfall near Yellapur in North Kanara - dreamroutes.org
		Magod Falls is a waterfall near Yellapur in North Kanara - dreamroutes.org
		A word of caution : Avoid sundays and holidays as it will be crowded (mostly with unhealthy social practices).
		} in Yellapur taluq in North Kanara district in North West Karnataka.
	www.dreamroutes.org /western/magodfalls.html (185 words)

	Uttara Kannada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is bounded on the northwest by the state of Goa, on the north by Belgaum district, on the northeast by Dharwad District, on the east by Haveri District, on the southeast by Shimoga District, on the south by Udupi District, and on the west by the Arabian Sea.
		The main geographic feature of the district is the Western Ghats or Sayadhri range, which runs from north to south through the district.
		The British established North Kanara district as initially as a part of Madras Presidency in 1859 CE.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uttara_Kannada (1415 words)

	Yashwant Vithoba Chittal - Kannada Writer: The South Asian Literary Recordings Project (Library of Congress New Delhi ...
		One of the leading Kannada fiction writers, Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, born on August 3, 1928 in Hanehalli in Karnataka's North Kanara District.
		Although he studied science and technology and subsequently had a career in the field of technology, he pursued a literary craft at the same time.
		These earlier writings depict the culture of his home in the North Kanara District.
	www.loc.gov /acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/chittal.html (329 words)

	Tulu Nadu
		It is known that their original base was located in the area.
		The capital was probably first placed at Anegondi, now a small village on the north side of the Tungabhadra, opposite the Vitthala temple.
		As the empire began to expand and prosper under Bukka Raya, the capital was established at the more defensible and secure location of Vijayanagara, on the south side of the river.
	www.bana.org /TuluNadu_1_.htm (1451 words)

	GOANEWS - BY SANDESH PRABHUDESAI
		But he dismisses all the fears about the Kaiga atomic power project, which is coming up 30 kms from here, in Karnataka's border region of North Kanara.
		Kumaramangalam, who was also the atomic energy minister earlier, blames the contractor and not the design for the collapse of one dome of the Kaiga project and justifies its completion with the same design.
		Protests from several environmental groups and citizens from North Kanara and Goan from across the border had received total negative response from the authorities when the project was planned a decade ago.
	www.goanews.com /4may98.htm (409 words)

	Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Trekking trails are mostly located in the "ghat" districts of North and South Kanara, Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Hassan and Coorg.
		THE district of North Kanara is literally a gorgeous trekking terrain with four mighty rivers flowing east to west.
		THE district of South Kanara is a popular pilgrim circuit.
	www.trekkersparadise.com (1705 words)

	Advocates protest over HC bench issue in Bijapur - Deccan Herald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The historical city of Bijapur is centrally situated in north Karnakata and is ideal for the establishment of High Court bench.
		Hence, keeping their problems in view, the High court bench has to be established in north Karnakataka.
		The promised amount of Rs 100-150 crore has to be allotted atleast in the next supplementary budget for the the establishment of High court bench in north Karnakataka, appealed the advocates.
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/july312004/d3.asp (594 words)

	Chitrapur Saraswats
		Legend has it that a community of ten Brahmin families, along with Lord Parshuram (who wanted to avenge his father's death), migrated from the foothills of the Himalayas and settled on the Western coastal strip, known as Saptakonkan.
		This included Travancore, Cochm, Malabar, South and North Kanara, Goa, Ratnagiri and the Thane-Colaba districts.
		Earlier, a Kanara Saraswat Association (KSA) had been established in 1911.
	www.kanarasaraswat.org /csaraswats.htm (866 words)

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		The weed has failed to establish in coastal Karnataka either in North Kanara or South Kanara districts although its growth in low intensity is seen in the borders of North Kanara adjoining Dharwad district.
		In hilly districts like Kodagu and Chikmagalur, its growth in thick population and in small colonies is seen in and around the townships and cities in constantly scrapped soils but not in the interior areas.
		Its growth is also reported in the United States of America from Florida to Texas, North of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Kansas (Gleason and Cronquist, 1963; Femold, 1970).
	www.iprng.org /spreadofparthenium.doc (2451 words)

	"Turmeric turns land barren"
		Farmers in north karnataka are approached by farmers from Andhra and Kerala to lease out thier land on yearly basis - for a good sum.
		But these lands are then used to grow turmeric and result is that they lose thier fertility and become barren.
		farmers must be made aware of this danger - already thousands of acres of land are made barren in coorg, south kanara, north kanara and malnad region.
	www.dharwad.com /dcforum/nkarnataka/187.html (122 words)

	DKPA : Presidents of the Indian National Congress
		He died at the age of 61 in 1909.
		Sir Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar (1855-1923) Narayan Ganesh Chandavarkar was born in Honawar in the North Kanara District of the Bombay Presidency on December 2, 1855.
		His visit to England in 1885 carved out for Chandavarkar a political career, and he threw himself whole-heartedly into the work of the Indian National Congress which was founded in Bombay in 1885 on December 28, the day on which he and the other delegates returned to India.
	www.geocities.com /dakshina_kan_pa/art25/topright.htm (1322 words)

	getting there (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Shirali is located in the southern part of North Kanara (Uttar Kannada) district of Karnataka state and is easily accessible to the Chitrapur Saraswat devotees settled in both South and North Kanara districts.
		On the Konkan Railway line, the nearest railway stations are Murdeshwar and Bhatkal (both about 6 km from Shirali to the north and south respectively).
		Autorickshaws, buses and other modes of road transport are available to reach Shirali from either of the railway stations.
	www.chitrapurmath.net /chgetth.htm (174 words)

	Stranded lorry owners stage rasta roko
		The lorry owners association of North Kanara and Kundapura today resorted to a road blockade for over 30 minutes at Ottinele near here in protest against the prevention of their manganese-ore-laden lorries at Bydnoor, the northern border of Udupi district, since Sunday last.
		Addressing reporters at Ottinele, North Karnataka Lorry Owners Association President Sashidhar Koravi charged the district police with stopping their lorries without any written orders or prior intimation to the lorry owners.
		The agitators also took out a procession through the main thoroughfares of Udupi and submitted a memorandum to the Deputy Commissioner.
	news.webindia123.com /news/articles/India/20060802/409493.html (128 words)

	Lineage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		H.H. Shrimat Keshavashram Swamiji (1785-1823) Samadhi at Shirali (North Kanara)
		H.H. Shrimat Krishnashram Swamiji (1839-1863) Samadhi at Shirali (North Kanara)
		H.H. Shrimat Pandurangashram Swamiji (1863-1915) Samadhi at Shirali (North Kanara)
	www.chitrapurmath.net /gur_lin.htm (134 words)

	RSB Net - Home of Rajapur Saraswath Brahmins
		The initial Kaivalya Mutt was destroyed by the Portugese around 1560 A.D. The mutt was re-eshtablished in 1630 A.D. at Ponda in Goa.
		Then there is a Chitrapur Mutt of Saraswats established in 1708 A.D. in the North Kanara district (Gokarna).
		In South Kanara they received education and got scattered in India (bank jobs, hotels, industries etc) and all over the world.
	www.rsbnet.com /history/briefhistory.html (640 words)

	Manipal Education::
		The objective of the scheme is to provide quality healthcare at affordable cost to the middle and lower income strata of society.
		Manipal ArogyaCard Scheme enables the cardholders to avail treatment at subsidized rates at all Manipal Group Hospitals along the coastal belt of South and North Kanara.
		The scheme has been a tremendous success over the last three years in reducing the cost of treatment for the members of the society.
	www.manipal.edu /announcements/manipal_arogya.htm (494 words)

	Folk arts Music and Dances of Karnataka-udupipages.com
		According to a recent study, regional art forms like 'Boodkali' of Coorg, 'Daasaraata' of North Karnataka and few other dance forms have lost their popularity due to the advent of electronic media - satellite television, video games, internet and so on.
		To know the folk art, on the forefront it is essential to know the territorial limitations of the State.
		: From Chitradurga towards North i.e., Belgaum, Bijapur, Bidar, Gulbarga, Dharwad, Bellary, Koppal, and Raichur area.
	www.udupipages.com /home/culture/folk.html (624 words)

	Kamat's Potpourri: North Kanara VII
		Canons used in a Maratha conquest of the Konkan coast (?)
		See Pictures from Previous Reel: North Kanara Tour VI (39 Pictures)
		See Pictures from Next Reel: North Kanara Tour IX Gokarn (22 Pictures)
	www.kamat.org /reel.asp?ReelNo=R1142 (72 words)

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