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	Surat - LoveToKnow 1911
		SURAT, a city and district of British India in the northern division of Bombay.
		Surat was taken by the English in 1759, and the conquerors assumed the undivided government of the city in 1800.
		The district has a coast-line of 80 m., consisting of a barren stretch of sand drift and salt marsh; behind this is a rich, highly-cultivated plain, nearly 60 m.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Surat (739 words)

	About Surat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Surat is a port city in the Indian state of Gujarat.
		Surat was taken by the British in 1759, and the conquerors assumed the undivided government of the city in 1800.
		Surat is a port city situated on the banks of the Tapti river.
	www.indianngos.com /districts/surat_about.htm (907 words)

	Surat Business Directory, Yellow Pages. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Surat is a port city in the Indian state of Gujarat and administrative headquarters of the Surat District.
		The City of Surat is located in the southern part of Gujarat at 21o 15' N latitude and 72o 52' E longitude on the southern bank of River Tapi.
		Surat is situated on the banks of the Tapi and was one of the greatest Indian Ports during the Mughal regime.
	www.suratpage.com (413 words)

	Surat: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Surat became one of India's most populous cities and busiest ports during the 17th cent.; but in 1664 it was sacked by the Marathas and declined in importance.
		Surat is also the educational and cultural center of S Gujarat.
		...desolate Rann of Kachchh, and the districts of Vadovara, Baruch, Surat, and the Dangs.
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/surat.jsp (1540 words)

	Surat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		But the prosperity of the factory at Surat received a fatal blow when Bombay was ceded to the British as part of the dowry for Catherine of Braganza's wedding to Charles II in 1662.
		Surat was again taken by the British in 1759, and the conquerors assumed the undivided government of the city in 1800.
		Surat is a port city situated on the banks of the Tapti river (though the port has disappeared because of the damming of the river Tapti, the nearest port is now in Hazira which falls in the metropolitan area of Surat).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Surat (3635 words)

	History of Surat City of Gujarat in India
		Subsequent to Muhammad Sahab-ud-din Ghori, the next mention of Surat is in 1347 A.D., in connection with the rebellion of Gujarat during the reign of Muhammad Tughlak (1325 to 1351).
		During Moghul regeime, Surat generally enjoyed peace and rose to the level of one of the first and prosperous cities of India.
		However, during 49 years of Aurangzeb's reign (1658 to 1707), Surat's prosperity was checked by :(i) Maratha raids, headed by Chatrapati Shivaji (1664 to 1685), (ii) by growing importance of Bombay (1677 to 1707) and (iii) 27 years of increasing disorders by local governors.
	www.insurat.com /about/history1.htm (779 words)

	Surat Travel, Surat Hotels, Surat Travel Agent, Surat Tours, Surat Travel Guide, Surat Tour Packages, Gujarat, India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The western side of the district is the sea coast and otherwise it is surrounded by districts of Navasari, The Dangs, Narmada and Bharuch.
		Surat has been on e of the most prosperous of India's cities in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		Surat was always under the control of the Hindu dynasties, till the 12th century when a general of Qutub-ud-din Aibak captured the city.
	www.t2india.com /place-info.php?place=109-Surat (507 words)

	Surat India Tour,Surat Tour in Gujarat,Surat Tourism in India,Surat Tour package,Tour Package for Surat India
		The city of Surat is situated on the bank of river Tapi in the West Indian state of Gujarat.
		Surat has been one of the most progressive of India’s cities in the 17th and 18th centuries.
		The Old Fort of Surat was built by Muhammad Tughlak in the 14th century as a defence fortification against the Bhils.
	www.rrindia.com /gujrat/surat-city.html (503 words)

	sumuldairy.com
		Surat a city poor in historical places and natural sights, but rich in riches.
		The city of Surat is situated on the bank of river Tapi.(Latitude 21°15' N and 72°52'E.) It occupies a pivotal position on Ahmedabad- Mumbai corridor and is connected by railway at a distance of 230 km.
		With rise of Bombay, it ceased to be a port of importance.
	www.sumulonline.com /absurat.html (2000 words)

	SURAT - Online Information article about SURAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Surat was taken by the English in 1759, and the conquerors assumed the undivided See also:
		Surat is still a centre of trade and manufacture, though some of its former See also:
		in Olpad to 72 in Chikhli, while at Surat city the average is 391 in.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /STE_SUS/SURAT.html (991 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: IAF conducts flood relief operation on war-footing
		Before thinking of their own lives, as the helicopter itself was surviving on the last drops of fuel, the IAF men had become concerned for the life of a total stranger.
		Owing to the inclement weather, the IAF aircraft and helicopters, entrusted with the task of carrying out relief and rescue operation in the flood affected areas of south Gujarat, particularly Surat district, yesterday, had to fly up to Daman for refuelling as the civil aviation authorities at Surat airport had "failed to arrange for fuel".
		District industry centre officials have also reached the place to assess the losses in this powerloom and diamond city and the neighbouring Hazira township.
	www.rediff.com /news/1998/sep/18flood1.htm (1228 words)

	Gujarat rushes vet teams to Surat
		The Gujarat government has rushed about 11 veterinary teams and has set up a 24-hour monitoring cell in Surat district is close to Nandurbar district of Maharashtra from where bird flu cases have been reported, officials said.
		"A 24-hour monitoring cell has been formed in Surat district and 11 veterinary teams have been rushed to the district which is in close proximity to Nandurbar," said D K Rao, secretary of the animal husbandry department of Gujarat.
		Meanwhile, Surat district collector Vatsala Vasudevan said the district administration has suspended the entry of poultry from nearby Navapur town of Nandurbar district.
	in.rediff.com /news/2006/feb/18flu2.htm (476 words)

	STATE OF GUJARAT & ANOTHER v. ZINABHAI RANCHHODJI DARJI & ORS [1971] INSC 336; [1972] 2 SCR 686; [1972] 1 SCC ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The district in question consists of several Talukas; one of such Talukas was called 'C' Taluka for which a Taluka Panchayat was constituted under the provisions of the Panchayat Act.
		He was not an elected member of the Surat District Panchayat and was rot appointed a member under S. 310A (2) (b) of the Panchayat Act.
		Surat district consists of several Talukas; one of such Talukas is called Chorashi Taluka for which a Taluka Panchayat was constituted under the provisions of the Panchayats Act.
	www.austlii.edu.au /~andrew/CommonLII/INSC/1971/336.html (3223 words)

	Army mobilised in flood-hit Surat : surat, flood, gujarat, tapi : IBNLive.com : CNN-IBN
		Surat: Water level in the Tapi river has been steadily rising as the state government has been forced to release more than eight lakh cusecs of water from the Ukai dam.
		About 54 villages in Surat district are likely to be affected by rising water levels in Tapi, while Bharuch, Vadodara, Surat and Navsari have been placed on an alert.
		Even though Surat city has been spared major flooding so far, authorities have asked the residents to move to safer grounds as a precautionary measure.
	www.ibnlive.com /news/army-mobilised-in-floodhit-surat/17947-3.html (398 words)

	Situation Reports: India: Floods - Jun 2006, India: Floods DREF Bulletin No. MDRIN001
		Surat district in Gujarat has been rated the worst affected, with the army, navy and air force being deployed to carry out major search and rescue operations in the district.
		Their problems have been compounded by the devastation caused by the floods in Bastar district and as a result of this; the tribals are presently living on the highway.
		Two districts have been affected by floods and according to latest reports from the Indian Meteorological Department, heavy rains are predicted in Jharkhand, Chaattisgarh, Telangana and north coastal Andhra Pradesh.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6SQD5Z?OpenDocument (1387 words)

	Surat Hotels Motels - a travel and top tourism guide to Surat IN
		Holiday Inn®-Surat is Surat’s only five star hotel and is located on the banks of River Tapti, in the posh business and shopping district of Surat, just 12 kms from the airport/railway station and 15 kms from Hazira Industrial Area.
		Although we are focused primarily on finding you a discount hotel in Surat we also recognize the need to find other amenities such as Surat dining, Surat attractions, transportation to and from Surat, as well as what activities there are to do in Surat.
		These include such things as hiking in Surat with all of it's wonderful parks, visiting the Surat galleries and museums, or enjoy one of the many Surat attractions.
	www.surathotelsmotels.com (221 words)

	sumuldairy.com
		Surat District has been a Pioneer in India in channeling trade in Cotton and Milk through co-operatives.
		Dairying on the other hand, was never popular with tribals (a major rural population in the District) as practically no infrastructure existed for milk marketing in their talukas, inaccessibility to their villages as well as taboos regarding keeping of buffaloes prevented the entire population of tribals from considering dairying as a source of income.
		Hence, the Surat District Co.operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd., SUMUL is trade name and literally meaning sound price, came into existence on August 22, 1951.
	www.sumuldairy.com /aboutus.htm (338 words)

	Surat Thani travel guide - Wikitravel
		Surat Thani is the provincial capital of Surat Thani Province.
		Surat Thani is a gateway to the islands of Thailand's eastern coast: Ko Samui, Ko Tao (great for scuba diving), and Ko Pha Ngan.
		Surat Thani airport is located about 20 km west of the city in Phunphin district.
	wikitravel.org /en/Surat_Thani (854 words)

	Surat district panchayat chief dead
		SURAT: A pall of gloom descended on the city with the demise of district panchayat president and senior Congress leader Amritbhai Patel on Wednesday morning in a fatal road accident near Vyara.
		District superintendent of police K L N Rao told 'The Times of India' that Patel and his driver Rafiq Ahmed were going to Vyara in a Premier Padmini car, and a truck heading towards Surat from Dhulia hit them at a very high speed on the road near Vyara.
		On hearing the news of the demise of district panchayat president, city Congress president Pratapsinh Kantharia and other leaders who were on their way to Gandhinagar rushed back to Surat.
	www.gujaratplus.com /news/Surat/72856.html (357 words)

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		Most of the low-lying areas were under six to eight feet of water yesterday because of the overflow of the Tapi river due to heavy rainfall coupled with the high tide in the sea.
		According to the State Water Resources Minister and in-charge of Surat district, at least 11 people were killed in Surat before water receded while more than 35,000 people in the district had to be evacuated during the last two days.
		When Saleem Kolsawala arrived at Surat railway station he was arrested by the police.Bhatia said, ‘‘There are no cases registered against Saleem Kolsawala in the city.
	www.lycos.com /info/surat--cities.html (563 words)

	May 8, 2001 - May 8, 2001 :: News Archive :: Gujarat News at GujaratPlus.com
		While neighbouring districts of Dahod and the Panchmahals are grappling with the problem of providing a livelihood to 4.61 lakh and 3.90 lakh relief workers respectively, Vadodara district currently has just 14,870 workers which, collectorate sources say, may rise to just about 20,000.
		District collector Bhagyesh Jha, however, feels that the situation arising out of the drought is fully under control and all genuine representations for declaring needy of relief work have been granted permission.
		SURAT: With the arrest of three persons last week from Ahmedabad, Surat district police claims to have busted an Indore-based inter-state gang, reportedly involved in hijacking a truck loaded with fabrics worth Rs 14 lakh from Mumbai on April 1 at Surat-Bharuch border.
	www.gujaratplus.com /news/archive/arc570.html (2324 words)

	Surat & District directory 1968 (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Surat has an historic association with the parents of Arthur Hoey Davis (otherwise the widely known author, "Steele Rudd"), whose humorous stories included "Dad and Dave" and other notable farmer pioneers that delighted Queensland readers earlier in this century.
		The Surat centre has expanded rapidly in recent years and their new buildings erected in Burrowes Street were officially opened on l8th October 1969, by Sir Thomas Hiley in the presence of a large gathering of town and district residents.
		Figures relating to stock and wool returns from a 9,000-acre property in Surat District, 1st July 1944 to 30th June 1945, somewhat typical of other grazing areas from 1926 until the extraordinary increase in wool values in 1947.
	www.tedharris.info.cob-web.org:8888 /armstrong/pages/warroo07.htm (1450 words)

	The Hindu : Ahmedabad yet to become mega city
		While in terms of population, the State accounting for 4.93 per cent of the total population of the country ranked 10th among all the States, in respect of literacy rate, it was a poor 15th and 22nd in respect of sex ration.
		The tribal-dominated districts of Dangs and Dahod recorded the highest sex ratio with 986 and 985 females respectively per 1,000 males while Surat with only 835 females per 1,000 males was the lowest.
		The density of population at 258 per one square kilometre area calculated on the basis of the estimated population of the earthquake-affected areas was placed at a comfortable situation.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2001/04/07/stories/0207000q.htm (488 words)

	Press Realeses 4th Dec 2000
		Dayal in his meeting with the district authorities in Surat after returning from Chindia cautioned them that the situation in the village is explosive with rumor that the Sangh parivar is trying to forcibly convert the church into a temple.
		John Dayal told the district collector that despite the presence of some policemen at the spot, there is no sense of confidence among the local people who allege that some local policemen are favouring the culprits.
		It is the responsibility of the Government of Gujarat through the district administration to ensure the freedom of religion and worship of the minority Christian community in the state, and specially in the Chindia village of Vyara, Surat district, where it is directly under threat of lawlessness communal elements.
	www.aiccindia.org /pressrelease19.html (840 words)

	Diamond city lures freelance robbers
		The recent was Monday’s incident when five masked men robbed Rs 1.9 lakh from the Surat District Cooperative Bank in broad daylight at Kim taluka of Surat.
		The Surat district superintendent of police D.J. Patel told the The Asian Age.
		The Surat police commissioner Vineet Gupta said, "Despite knowing that carrying such high value diamonds could be dangerous when such incidents are being reported, the traders should have taken proper precautions.
	www.ahmedabad.com /news/2k3/nov/5diamond.htm (454 words)

	Cong plans mass contact programme in Surat-Ahmedabad-Cities-NEWS-The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		SURAT: The Congress would launch a fortnight-long mass contact programme in the tribal-dominated areas of Surat district from October 16.
		The programme is aimed at creating awareness about the failure of the state government in developing the region and to raise area-specific issues in view of the forthcoming Assembly polls, said party sources.
		According to Surat district panchayat chief Maujibhai Choudhary, the aim behind the programme is to motivate party workers in tribal-dominated areas and to create awareness about issues related to their development.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?artid=24004338 (277 words)

	LAHRC - Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (GUJARAT)
		The beneficiaries of the project are the tribal people of the seven talukas of Surat District where LAHRC is working at present.
		In the Surat district, the tribal population totals more than 1.2 million and constitutes 36 percent of the overall population.
		In the seven talukas of Surat (Nizar, Ucchal, Songadh, Vyara, Mandvi, Mangrol and Umadpada) where LAHRC operates, nearly 99 percent of the population is tribal.
	www.ashanet.org /projects/project-view.php?p=390 (187 words)

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		It is not possible to have the exact year of his birth and to know the time of his moving to Surat District.
		One time there were 84 flags of different countries flying at the port of Surat, and that is why the port of Surat was famous for her name of Choryasi -eighty-four Bandar -port.
		Because of her richness, people of all walks began to settle in Surat and the surrounding areas.
	members.tripod.com /~patelh5/story.htm (1123 words)

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