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  Swaminarayan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Certain particular doctrines characterize the parent stem on the one hand, and the subgroups which have separated from it, on the other.
The two dioceses which are centred on Vadtal and Ahmedabad (Gujerat, Western India) constitute the parent stem.
During his travels he mastered the teachings of all the major philosophical traditions, engaging in debate with their leading teachers, finally espousing the theological position of Ramanuja as being the true one.
philtar.ucsm.ac.uk /encyclopedia/hindu/devot/swamin.html   (1077 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | International | The ultras' comeback   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
The BJP won 2001's contest and its leader Narendra Modi was sworn in as chief minister of Gujerat in October 2001.
The Gujerat elections were thus, on the one hand, a referendum on Modi's handling of the communal riots.
In short, victory for the BJP in Gujerat has pushed India further away from the officially secular state espoused by Jawaharlal Nehru, the country's first prime minister, and further towards the officially Hindu state espoused by Madhav Golwalkar, the ideologue who inspired the BJP.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2002/617/in1.htm   (1109 words)

  
 Munhumutapa Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Portuguese brought force to bear as early as 1505 to place the trade in Portuguese control, and the trade was well in hand, Fernand Braudel asserts, by 1513.
The fabrics of Gujerat drew the gold to the coast.
Pressures of trade with outsiders were transformed, Monotapa was driven by rival factions, and the gold panned from the rivers thinned out and disappeared.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Munhumutapa_Empire   (200 words)

  
 ONSNUMIS.ORG - Kshaharata Questions
The silver drachm coinage of Gujerat was mainly issued by the successors of Chastana, of the Kardamaka dynasty, the rulers of which dynasty are generally referred to as the Western Satraps.
At present, he is the earliest named Kshaharata of whom we have coins and they have been found not only in Gujerat but as far afield as the Arab Emirates and Afghanistan, suggesting that it was he who may have founded the wealth of the dynasty by trading with the Romans.
Kutch is the part of Gujerat north of the Gulf of Kutch.
www.onsnumis.org /articles/kshaharata.shtml   (1971 words)

  
 BBC World Service - Learning English   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
BBC business reporter Mark Gregory looks at the economic impact of the earthquake on Gujerat's 42 million people and the wider Indian economy.
Lower output in Gujerat could result in nation-wide shortages of some raw materials and industrial products.
Gujerat has one and a half thousand kilometres of coast line and a number of major ports.
bbc.co.uk /worldservice/learningenglish/news/words/general/010201.shtml   (436 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Bombay
The Archdiocese of Bombay comprises the Island of Bombay with several outlying churches in the neighbouring Island of Salsette, and a large portion of the Bombay Presidency stretching northwards from the river Nerbudda as far as Quetta, including the districts of Gujerat (Broach, Baroda, Ahmedabad), Kathiawar, Cutch, Sind and a portion of Beluchistan.
The Catholic population under the archbishop is reckoned at about 18,000, of which about 8,000 are in Bombay Island; 3,500 in Salsette; 2,000 in Gujerat, Kathiawar and Cutch, and 4,500 in Sind and Beluchistan.
The archdiocese is served by 50 fathers, 19 scholastics, and 16 lay brothers of the German province of the Society of Jesus, and 19 native secular priests, attending 24 churches and 25 chapels, besides Sisters of the Orders of Jesus and Mary and the Daughters of the Cross engaged in education and charitable work.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/02644a.htm   (1098 words)

  
 Dateline ACT
The road from Ahemadabad to Bhuj in northern Gujerat is not one to be traveled lightly.
These people - and thousands more like them in Gujerat, are on the very edge of existence.
In some areas, the crop yield is down by as much as 90 percent, destroyed by three years of poor rains.
www.act-intl.org /news/dt_nr_2001/dtind-0101.html   (804 words)

  
 Michael Jackson's Beer Hunter - The empire strikes back
Between the Pakistani city of Karachi and the Indian city of Bombay juts the state of Gujerat.
With its westerly, coastal, position, Gujerat is one of the most outgoing states of India.
It may be just one among India's 28 provinces and seven territories, but Gujerat has touched upon the life of every neighborhood in the cities of Britain.
beerhunter.com /documents/19133-001846.html   (2331 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: India
In the fourteenth century the country south of the Kistna was held by the Indian princes with their capital at Vijayanagar, while north of this the Bahmani kingdom, and those of Malwa, Gondwana, Telingana, Behar, Bengal, Jaunpur, etc., were in various degrees independent of the Afghan dominion of Delhi.
The empire of Akbar comprised the provinces of Kabul, Lahore, Multan, Delhi, Agra, Oudh, Allahabad, Ajmere, Gujerat, Malwa, Behar, Bengal, Khandesh, Berar, Ahmednagar, Orissa, Sind, and Kashmir, the southern boundary being roughly speaking marked by the River Godaveri and the latitude of Bombay.
In 1823 British territory reached almost all round the coast from Assam to Gujerat, and extended inwards in such a way that the Native States resembled islands in a sea (Travancore, Mysore, Nizam's dominions, Kolhapur, Mahratta States, Rajputana, Oudh, etc).
www.newadvent.org /cathen/07722a.htm   (12511 words)

  
 cutch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
Leaving Sind, after the birth of a natural son to this adopted father, Lakho migrated to the marshlands of western Gujerat.
Maharao Khengarji, the head of the Jadeja clan, consolidated his territories in 1549 and established his capital at Bhuj.
The family allied itself and intermarried with the Muslim rulers of Gujerat and Afghanistan, as well as, the Imperial Mughal dynasty of Delhi.
4dw.net /royalark/India/cutch.htm   (732 words)

  
 Diu - Index
Neighbouring Gujerat, just half a mile away over a road causeway, is a dry state.
So every weekend, Gujerat's drinkers descend on Diu en-masse to blow their hard earned rupees on Kingfisher beer and IMFL (Indian Made Foreign Liquor - the generic name for myriad bad imitations of scotch whiskey).
Since 'liberation', nothing much seems to have happened to Diu except a gradual erosion of its catholic roots as more and more of the old families move to Goa, where the catholic community feels more at home.
www.flat3.co.uk /india/pages/index_diu.htm   (249 words)

  
 Afghanistan - History
In 1848, when the Sikh revolt broke out, Dost Mahommed, stimulated by popular outcry and by Sikh offer to restore Peshawar, crossed the frontier and took Attok.
A cavalry force of Afghans was sent to join Sher Singh against the British, and was present at the battle of Gujerat (21st Feb. 1849).
The pursuit of the Afghans by Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, right up to the passes, was so hot that the Dost owed his escape to a fleet horse.
www.1902-encyclopedia.com /A/AFG/afghanistan-20.html   (3201 words)

  
 Seminar on Relief and Discrimination - Statement
The earthquake in Gujerat affected the Dalit communities more seriously because of the poverty and oppression under which they labour.
We therefore view with very grave concern reports of discrimination in the distribution of assistance in the aftermath of the earthquake in Gujerat.
What are the specific ways in which agencies are planing to address caste discrimination in the light of the March 2001 DEC Report, especially in relation to point 5, stating that 'we shall respect culture and custom'?
www.ambedkar.org /News/Seminaron.htm   (590 words)

  
 : : Indian Textiles : :   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
It will be a voyage that will take us from Surat on the west coast of India in Gujerat to Batavia, as it then was, in Java.
These three areas were present day Gujerat, the Coromandel coast in south west India and the third area being near Madras on the Bay of Bengal; the three were responsible for textile exports from time almost immemorial.
The Portuguese were the first Europeans to document this trade For example, Tome Pires, the author of the Summa Oriental written between 1512 and 1515, commented on the stranglehold which the Gujarati traders had on the textile trade.
www.traditionaltextiles.com /Collections/IndianTradeTextiles.htm   (641 words)

  
 CNN.com - Eyewitness: Shattered lives on edge of existence - February 2, 2001
Christian Aid's Indian partner organisation, CASA, was the only group to have reached this cut-off village.
Gujerat is in the grip of a three-year drought.
Crop yields are down by 90 per cent in some areas.
edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/02/02/eyewitness.india   (582 words)

  
 New America Media
Gandhi was born in Gujerat, and in his day Hindus and Muslims lived peaceably in a region that included the Pakistani province of Sind.
Hindus fled from Sind to Gujerat and Muslims from Gujerat to Sind.
Before then, Hindus and Muslims, especially members of Gandhi's Congress Party, shared a common destiny rooted in the defunct Moghul dynasty and a common direction that led to the end of British rule.
news.ncmonline.com /news/view_article.html?article_id=790   (1143 words)

  
 Scoop: Straw meets Indian Minister of External Affairs
Although touching on Gujerat and Afghanistan, the dominant subject of the discussion, said Mr Straw, 'was the regional issue and the potential of conflict across the line of control between India and Pakistan'.
And then obviously the dominant subject of the discussion was the regional issue and the potential of conflict across the line of control between India and Pakistan, between Jammu and Kashmir and Pakistan administered Kashmir.
The position of the Chief Minister of the Gujerat is a matter for the Union Government and the Government of the Gujerat and that is an internal matter.
www.scoop.co.nz /stories/WO0205/S00160.htm   (1425 words)

  
 Pakistan Link Headlines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
According to details thirty Muslims were burnt alive when a village Pandarvada near Godhra town was torched by Hindus.
The Army has been deployed in Gujerat State after Police failed to control the violence.
The unrest is now spread beyond Gujerat with parts of the city of Mumbai closed down in response to a call by Hindu activists for a nation-wide strike.
www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/Mar/03/01.html   (181 words)

  
 Photos from the WSF, Mumbai, India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
An activist organization from the Western Indian state of Gujerat.
Gujerat is just north of Maharashtra (of which Mumbai is the capital).
This contingent of people walked into the plenary, chanting and holding up their banner.
www.uprisingradio.org /wsf/wsf_photo46.html   (55 words)

  
 Golden Age
As he raised the siege and retired to Gujerat for the time being, the Sindhi army raised the triumphant half-Persian half-Sindhi slogan: ``Baa Barqat Pir Patho, hik muo biyo tattho''(``with the grace of Saint Pattho, one died and the other retreated''.
During the ensuing period, Sindh and Gujerat became great friends and allies --- in their common bid to maintain independence.
The Tarikh-i-Tahiri goes ecstatic over the prosperity of Sindh in the Samma period: ``Lands hitherto barren were now carefully cultivated; there was hardly a piece of ground left untilled.
yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu /~jamali/sindh/story/node10.html   (2238 words)

  
 ``I am a Sindhi'' --- Gandhi
And he once told me that Muslim cruelty and fanaticism could be traced to their neglect of the fine arts of music, dancing, painting and sculpture as ``un-Islamic''.
Referring to the Sindhi professors at the Gujerat Vidyapeeth as ``the treaty made between Gujerat and Sindh'', he asked the Gujerat students to go as flood relief workers to Sindh and repay ``the debt to Sindh''.
Ramdas' marriage cost me probably one rupee, that is one or two coconuts and two taklis for the bride and the bridegroom, two cop- ies of the Gita and two copies of the Bhajanavali.
yangtze.cs.uiuc.edu /~jamali/sindh/story/node17.html   (4881 words)

  
 Oppiliappan List Archive Apr 1996
The only difference between Meera Bhai and AndAL is that the latter is the consort of the Lord and she took the Avatar on this earth as the daughter of PeriyAzhwAr.
During the time of Meera Bhai(16th century), the Bhakthi/ Saranagathi aspects of the Azhwaars as established by Bhagavad Ramanuja Siddhantham had spread to the northern and western parts of the country and especially to Rajasthan and Gujerat.
It is not therefore too much of a stretch of imagination to assume that the teachings of Sri Ramanuja had " an indelible Impact " on Meera"s life as suggested by Professor Seshan of Vaishnava College, Madras.
www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/oppiliappan/archives/1996/msg00082.html   (856 words)

  
 GEMPA BUMI DI GUJERAT . . . BELIA CHETTI SERAH BANTUAN
GAJAH BERANG : Nasib malang mangsa gempa bumi di Gujerat, India turut menarik perhatian masyarakat di negeri ini untuk turut menghulurkan bantuan terhadap kesengsaraan dan penderitaan yang menimpa mereka.
Sementara itu, Pengerusi Hotel Pasific Inn, Bharat K Ajmera pula berkata, sumbangan itu dipungut dari orang ramai sejak beberapa minggu lepas selepas gempa bumi melanda Gujerat.
Gempa bumi 6.9 berskala rektar itu telah melanda Gujerat 26 Januari lepas yang mengorbankan kira-kira 19,213 dan mencederakan 166,812 orang selain memusnahkan harta benda serta tempat tinggal.
mingguan.melaka.net /2001/feb_25/artikel2.htm   (225 words)

  
 The Slave Children who Cut Diamonds
Sharp young eyes are prized in the diamond cutting trade.
He was among the many children recruited every year from impoverished Gujerat villages that find themselves trapped into what the UN condemns as slavery.
They are paid so badly that they have to borrow from the workshop owner to visit home.
www.sparkle.plus.com /children.html   (525 words)

  
 Tehreek Round Up, Latest News
In a statement issued here from Tehreek headquarters, he said attack on any State, Maktab or place of worship is the attack on independence and freedom.
He said initiation of anti-Muslim riots in Indian Gujerat, siege of Yasser Arafat in Palestine, stopping water and electricity supply was a part of that conspiracy.
But, he said the world leaders and the OIC representatives were engaged in deep slumber and were doing nothing except issuing some statements.
www.tnfj.org.pk /sec/rnd42.htm   (5871 words)

  
 HinduUnity.org : Boycott-Bomb, The Liberty Sheild of The Hindu
Reports keep filtering in that the Boycott-Technique is working in the state of Gujerat, this is mighty-marvelous.
There is no other technique that is as effective, or is as capable of knocking the Sulla completely out of India, in the shortest amount of time, and without spilling a single drop of blood.
Hindus of India: Let us join the Hindus of Gujerat, and conduct our Boycott against the Sullas in real earnest, give them hell, hit them hard, jolt and blow them up.
www.hinduunity.org /articles/attri/boycottbomb.html   (1510 words)

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