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	Sanjan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sanjan (Khorasan) was a town in the ancient Persian region of Greater Khorasan near Merv.
		Sanjan (Gujarat) is a town on the Maharashtra - Gujarat border about 145 kilometers north of Mumbai, named by Zoroastrian immigrants after the Sanjan in Khorasan.
		Samur Sanjan is a village in the Kordestan Province of Iran.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sanjan (171 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sanjan (Gujarat)
		Sanjan is the second station in Gujarat (the first station is Umergaon) just inside the Gujarat-Maharashtra border, when travelling on the Western Railway line.
		Sanjan is the place where the Parsi community first landed when they came to India to escape religious persecution circa 936 AD.
		Gujarat (Gu:, De: ;, IPA ; also spelled Gujrat and sometimes (incorrectly) Gujarath) contained many of the former Princely states of India, and is the second most industrialized state in India after Maharashtra.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sanjan-%28Gujarat%29 (193 words)

	seemyindia
		Gujarat is the land of the Gurjara trekis.
		On May 1,1960, on the basis of language, the state of Gujarat was carved out of the Gujarati-speaking areas of Bombay and Kathiawad of the past with its capital at Ahmedabad.
		Geographically, Gujarat can be divided into 3 regions: (1) the main-land comprising Surat, Baroda and Ahmedabad, the 3 industrial cities; (2) the Saurashtra peninsula or Kathiawad of yore; (3) the Runn area of Kutch separated by the sea.
	www.seemyindia.com /gujarat/gujarat-history.htm (812 words)

	Vibrant Gujarat : International Kite Festival 2006&Vishwa Gujarati Pariwar Mahotsav
		Gujarat has a long historical and cultural tradition dating back to the days of the Harappan civilization established by relics found at Lothal.
		Gujarat was a part of the erstwhile Mumbai state during the British Rule.
		Gujarat is the birthplace of many who played an important role in shaping modern India.
	www.vibrantgujarat.com /gujarat.html (342 words)

	Gujarat India,Gujarat Tourism,Travel Information,Travel India,Travel Tour India, India Travel Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gujarat is also the main producer of tobacco, cotton and groundnut in the country.
		Gujarat's population is overwhelmingly Hindu, with Muslim and Jain minorities.
		Gujarat is a birthplace of many freedom fighers, who played an important role to give the shape of modern india.
	www.khazano.com /aspx/Travel.asp (693 words)

	Dhaman - The Definitive Guide: Gujarat History and Milestones
		Gujarat is one of India's most industrialized states, in western India, covering an area of 196,024 sq km (75,685 sq mi).
		The journey through the width and breadth of Gujarat is not merely a physical tour of the land, it is a treat with its people.
		Gujarat's textile industry is still the largest in India, with the trading of the business-minded community helping to mantain its wealth.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /southbank/performing/31/gujarat.html (1504 words)

	Gujarat Travel Guide,Travel Guide Gujarat,Travel Guide in Gujarat,Travel Guide of Gujarat,about Gujarat Travel ...
		Gujarat's picturesque hill station is perched on a plateau in the Dang forest area of the Sahyadri Range.
		One of the finest beaches in Gujarat is at Mandvi, a historic port town of the Maharao of Kutch.
		Gujarats picturesque hill station is perched on a plateau in the Dang forest are of the Sahyadari Range.
	www.colorsofgujarat.com /gujarat-travel-guide.html (3381 words)

	Past to the Present
		Gujarat came under Muslim rule as the result of a decisive battle in March 1298.
		Gujarat under Mughal rule in the sixteenth and seveteeth centuries was peaceful.
		Gujarat declined with the rest of empire under his rule.
	www.ahmedabad.com /travel/pastpres.htm (1364 words)

	Prominent Tours and Travels, Baroda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Gujarat's principal city is Ahmedabad (also known as Amdavad) and is one of the major industrial cities in India.
		Although Ahmedabad was entitled to be the capital of Gujarat state when the old state of Bombay was split into Maharashtra and Gujarat in 1960, a new capital was planned 32km north-east on the West Bank of the Sabarmati River.
		Named Gandhinagar after Mahatma Gandhi, who was born in Gujarat, it is India's second planned city after Chandigarh and, like that city, is laid out in numbered sectors and preplanned areas.
	www.prominenttravels.com /gujarat/gujarat.htm (354 words)

	Home for the mentally challenged opens (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The parents are elated as their project; the Sanjan Home for the mentally challenged is now partly operational and moving quickly towards completion.
		The Sanjan home is built on three acres of land, with three buildings as part of the project.
		The objective of Sanjan is to house these adults with the security and safety of a home, and also run a vocational centre that will keep them busy.
	web.mid-day.com /news/city/2004/march/79737.htm (706 words)

	Gujarat from Near & Far
		In the 19th century it was again the people of Gujarat, especially the Parsis, who developed Bombay as a port, which till recently accounted for 40% of India's marine trade.
		Gujarat is poised to emerge as 'the chemical state' of India at the beginning of the next century.
		The history of the mahajans in Gujarat can be traced to the 16th century, though it could be even older, as old as the trade itself.
	gujaratonline.com /arts/vision2.htm (1012 words)

	GujaratPlus.com - Cities of Gujarat - Surat
		Parsis first settled in Surat in the 12th century; they had earlier been centred l00km south in Sanjan, where they had fled from Persia five centuries before.
		It is said that the fire was brought from Persia to Diu, on the opposite coast of the Gulf of Cambay, in 700 AD.
		Sanjan, in the extreme south of the state, is the small port where the Parsis first landed.
	www.gujaratplus.com /web/gujarat/cities/surat.html (413 words)

	Jadav Rana - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jadav Rana was a Hindu king of from Yadava dynasty Sanjan (in modern day Gujarat, India) in the 8th century CE.
		He allowed Persian Zoroastrians, who were fleeing their homeland due to religious persecution, to settle in his kingdom.
		The king agreed to let the Parsis settle in Sanjan under the conditions that they adopt local dress and language, lay down their arms, marry within their own community and not proselytize.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jadav_Rana (219 words)

	Sanjan shards help piece together Parsi history- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		She has also found allusions to a fire altar—the temple where a flame is kept burning as a symbol of the cycle of life and eternal recurrence—on the sole Sassanian coin, which is from the 7th century.
		Blue pottery was manufactured at Siraf in Iran and at Basra in Iraq in the 7th and 8th centuries and was in use in many Asian countries until the 11th century, when the preference for blue was possibly replaced by the pale green of celadon pottery.
		But the remains unearthed at Sanjan reveal a continuity in the usage of blue pottery as well as celadon—which probably means that there was a flourishing trade between Iran, Iraq and South Gujarat," he added.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/html/uncomp/articleshow?msid=43207293 (672 words)

	A Photographic Journey - Parsis - The Zoroastrians of India by Sooni Taraporevala \| Chapter Five
		Many moved from Sanjan to other parts of India with their families: to Cambay, Navsari, Anklesvar, Variav, Vankaner and Surat in the north, and to Thane and Chaul in the south.
		In 1305 an opportunity arose that gave Parsis a means to repay their ancient debt to the ruler of Sanjan whose forefather Jadhav Rana had allowed them to settle on his land.
		Alp Khan, Ala-ud-din Khilji's feared general, was marching towards Sanjan at the head of 30,000 troops.
	www.parsijourney.com /chapters/five/chfive.html (569 words)

	The Parsi Community of India - the Last Bastion of Zoroastrianism in the World Today
		Sanjan, a tiny principality, (about 100 km north of present day Mumbai,) was ruled by Jadi Rana.
		The beleaguered king, not too keen on allowing foreign refugees to settle in his tiny kingdom, sent a bowl full of milk to the foreigners, signifying that the land was full and could support no more.
		In India, Parsis in general assimilated into the culture prevalent in Gujarat without relinquishing their own traditions that were bequeathed orally down the ages.
	www.lifepositive.com /spirit/world-religions/zoroastrianism/parsi-community.asp (1668 words)

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		INTRODUCTION 1.1 Overview of Gujarat State Highways Project The state of Gujarat is located on the west coast of India, north of the state of Maharashtra and bordering Pakistan to the northwest.
		Gujarat State, due to the presence of significant historical, traditional and cultural value demands sensitive and sympathetic assessment of her cultural assets in the process of inducting improvement or new development projects.
		Sanjan in Valsad district is where the Parsis first landed in India but the eternal flame brought with them from Persia is now housed in Udvada, which is now the community's permanent headquarters in India.
	www-wds.worldbank.org /servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2002/08/16/000094946_02071004054365/Rendered/INDEX/multi0page.txt (9549 words)

	other_temp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It is the c enter of the Naggar Brahmin community that has provided Gujarat with some of her best administrators, poets, writers and musicians.
		When Akbar’s court poet and singer, Tansen was affected by the burns of the Deepak raag, he came to Vadnagar, and was cured by the Raag Maldaar sung by Tana and Riri.
		Sanjan was one of the first landing points of the Parsees with an important fire temple.
	www.ahmedabadcity.com /tourism/html/other_temp.html (1013 words)

	About Gujarat
		Gujarat is situated on the Western Indian coast having a 1,600 kms long Arabian Sea coastline.
		It stretches from Kutch in the North to Daman in the South and the hilly tract from Aravalli in the East to the Western hills with lush green forests, rivers as well as plains.
		Prominent among them are Shri Dadabhai Navroji, the grand old man of the freedom fight, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the architect of a united India and Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the Nation.
	www.kinjalpatel.com /guj.htm (458 words)

	Parsis Religion in Gujarat, Religion of India, Parsis Religion, West India Tours, Gujarat Religious Tours, Zoroastrian ...
		By that time their numbers greatly increased and many moved from Sanjan to other parts of India with their families: to Cambay, Navsari, Anklesvar, Variav, Vankaner and Surat in the north, and to Thane and Chaul in the south.
		In 1465 Sanjan was sacked and destroyed by the Muslim Sultanate.
		Many settled down in the port town of Surat, in Gujarat, where in the 15th century, Europeans mainly the Portuguese, the British and the Dutch had been given permission by the Mughals to establish trading factories.
	www.indiantravelportal.com /gujarat/religion/parsis-gujarat.html (618 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Zoroastrian heritage, Noshirwan Mistry
		Sanjan ranks among the earliest settlements of the Zoroastrians who fled from Iran in the 7th - 8th centuries A.D. Zoroastrians settled and prospered here till the end of the 14th century when it was invaded by Alafkhan, a general of Mahmud Tughlaq in 1393.
		Excavations carried out recently have re vealed that Sanjan was a thriving urban port having close trade connections with Iran and the Persian Gulf area.
		The Zoroastrians after the attack on Sanjan by Alaf Khan took the sacred Iranshah, the first fire to be consecrated in India to the nearby caves on Bahrot hills.
	www.iranian.com /History/2003/May/Sanjan (973 words)

	Health:SARS GETS A TOEHOLD IN INDIA
		They landed in Diu, and were later given refuge in Sanjan (Gujarat) by the local king, Jadi Rana.
		This gave rise to difficulties in defining the limits of priestly jurisdiction, which were resolved in 1290 AD by the establishment of five panthaks or districts—Sanjan, Navsari, Godareh-Ankleswar, Broach and Cambay.
		Late in the 15th century, Sanjan was attacked by a Muslim army, probably a war of conquest by the sixth Sultan of Gujarat.
	www.dayafterindia.com /june11/societyhealth.html (955 words)

	GujaratPlus.com - Rediscover Gujarat ..Rediscover the Gujarati in You !
		The GMB was established in 1982 as the nodal authority for Gujarat and reports to the Department of Ports and Fisheries, Government of Gujarat.
		The Executive Summary of the Gujarat Infrastructure Agenda Vision 2010 states that the Maroli Port Project is a top priority project for the purpose of linkage by road from port head to the nearest state or national road head.
		The attitude and conduct of the GMB and State of Gujarat in the present case belies the above promises and liberties, and reflects on the total disregard of the state for the right of locals to be involved in activities having a direct impact on their lives.
	www.gujaratplus.com /environment/umargam/report.html (16305 words)

	Gujarat / Woodland Tours and Travels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The west coast state of Gujarat is not one of Indi's busiest tourist destinations and although it is quite easy to slot Gujarat in between Bombay and the cities of Rajasthan, few people pause to explre this interesting state.
		Gujarat has a long and varied history and a great number of interesting places to visit.
		Right in the south of Gujarat, the 56-sq km enclave of Daman was along with Diu encleave of Daman was along with Diu taken from the Portuguese at the same time as Goa.
	www.woodlandtoursandtravels.com /gujarat.htm (399 words)

	THE WZO SANATORIUM
		The very name of Sanjan conjures up nostalgia and sentiment in the heart of every Zoroastrian, for it was on the shores of Sanjan in Gujarat that Zoroastrians received sanctuary when they landed 1371 years ago to preserve their Faith and escape from religious persecution.
		The WZO Sanatorium, is situated in idyllic surroundings, on a four-acre plot of land, and is a mere three-hour train journey from Mumbai.
		The Sanjan Memorial Column erected to commemorate the historic arrival is situated next door to the WZO Sanatorium.
	www.w-z-o.org /RN_24_sep_2001.htm (177 words)

	Gujrat overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The new State of Gujarat came into existence on May 01, 1960 because of this bifurcation.Gujarat is the birthplace of many who played an important role in shaping modern India.
		It stretches from Kutch in the West to Daman in the South and the hilly tract from Aravalli in the East to the Western hills with lush green forests, rivers as well as plains.
		Keeping in view the fervour with which this festival is celebrated, Gujarat Tourism has started the International Kite Festival at Ahmedabad annually (13th-15th) which draws eminent kitists from all over the world.
	www.cnnhorizons.com /india/cul-guj-overview.htm (688 words)

	Iran Heritage
		This group of Iranians moved from their homeland near Neishapur and the Fort of Sanjan in Khorrasan to the island of Hormoz in the Persian Gulf.
		By the fifteenth century, the small band of fugitives who had left Iran in the 10th century and settled in the Gujarat in western India had begun to prosper.
		These compilations, called the Rivayats were written in Persian, which had become the literary language of the Parsi scholars under the influence of the Moslem rule in Gujarat.
	www.iran-heritage.org /interestgroups/zoroastrian-article6.htm (2856 words)

	Parsi Link (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Gupta and his team reached Sanjan, on the banks of Varoli river, in February 2002, they were merely hoping to unravel some facts about the arrival of a tired and persecuted group of people at a little-known principality then ruled by a local chieftain, Jadi Rana.
		Blue pottery is believed to have been manufactured at Siraf in Iran and at Basra in Iraq in the seventh and eighth centuries and was in use till the 11th century in many Asian countries when the preference for blue was possibly replaced by the pale green of celadon pottery.
		Khambat and Bharuch on the Gujarat coast had sea trade links with Persia as did Kamraj near Surat which, Gupta believes, was a major port for the Roman trade.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0103/329.html (988 words)

	India - Zoroastrianism
		Originally, the Parsis were shipbuilders and traders located in the ports and towns of Gujarat.
		The towns of Sanjan, Nausari, and Udvada in Gujarat are of prime importance to Parsis, having long served as community centers before mass migration to Bombay in the nineteenth century.
		Bombay is home to 70 percent of India's Parsis, where the management of Parsi affairs rests in the hands of a panchayat (see Glossary), the assembly that serves as a charitable and educational organization providing a comprehensive social welfare system at the local level.
	countrystudies.us /india/59.htm (626 words)

	Gir National Park
		Featuring the beaches of Gujarat state and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu, the coast is easily accessible from Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat, which have high connectivity to Dehli and Mumbai by air/rail, and Rajkot, Bhavnagar, Jamnagar and Gandhidham with frequent connections to Mumbai.
		For dwellers of landlocked north Indian cities, Gujarat is easier to access than the coastline of southern India.
		The beach of Mandvi, in Kutch district, is one of the finest in Gujarat.
	www.girnationalpark.com /beaches-in-gujarat.htm (2204 words)

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