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Savarkundla
There are 84 villages in Savarkundla tehsil, Vanshiyali, Vanda, Gadhakda, Ramgadh, Vijpadi, Chikhali, Piyava, Dhar, Juna Savar, Bhuva, Badhada, Vijyanagar, Likhala, Mota Zinzuda, Nana Zinzuda, Vadal, Khadsali, Nesadi, Kanatalav, Oliya, Charkhadiya, Gordka, Bhokarva, Bhenkara, Navagam, Luvara,Dhajdi, Amrutvel, Savarkundla, Amrutvel. Demographics According to the 2011 census, Savarkundla had a population of 78,354. Males constituted 52% of the population and females 48%. 11% of the population was under 6 years of age. Blacksmith (Luhar) is the largest community. This is due to iron industries like weighing scales and tools. Several other communities also abide there. Geography Savarkundla is situated on the southern Saurashtra (region), Saurashtra plateau. It is an area of hilly terrain. Ground water table is very low. The water contains a high level of total dissolved solids along with excess levels of sodium and phosphate. The water extracted from bore-wells is hot. The Navli r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amrutvel, Savarkundla
Amrutvel is a village in Savarkundla Taluka of Amreli district, Gujarat, India. It is about six miles north-east of Savarkundla. History The village is principally known for having been a possession of a certain Bukhari Syad named Anvar Shah. This Syad had in his employ a Sidi named Balal who became enamored of a beautiful Brahmin woman who was drawing water at the Nishania well, originally called Nakvasa; insulted her modesty, and on her husband remonstrating the Sidi killed him. The Brahmin female then became a sati and her ''paliyo'' or funeral monument stands to this day close to the village with the date Samvat 1042 (996 AD) on the tenth of the light half of Bhadarva, Saturday. But to avenge this cruel wrong the Juna Savar Valas attacked the village at night, and killed both the Sidi and the Syad, and burnt the village. Afterwards the Khumans repopulated the village in the fifteenth century and gave it the name of Amrutvel. References This article incorporates text from a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mota Zinzuda
Mota Zinzuda (Village ID 515780) is a village near Savar Kundla, Amreli District, India. It is located 6 km from Savar Kundla. Mota Zinzuda is situated approximately 37km away from the district headquarters of Amreli. The village is also home to a temple located on a mountain, which is revered by the local population. There is a PHC (Primary Health Care) center in Mota Zinzuda that provides care for residents in 17 nearby villages. Nana Zinzuda is an adjacent village to Mota Zinzuda. Discussions on merging both the villages into a single village named Zinzuda are ongoing. The two areas of the newly merged village will be called Mota and Nana corresponding to the location of Mota Zinzuda and Nana Zinzuda respectively. Mota Zinzuda is home to various Shaivite temples of reverence such as: Nilakanth Mahadev, Bhadeshwar Mahadev, NanaZinzuda-Som Temple, Kanteswar Mahadev, Rameswar Mahadev, and Ramji Mandir. The village also houses two temples dedicated to the Hindu God Hanuman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morarji Desai
Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his long career in politics, he held many important posts in government such as Chief Minister of Bombay State, Home Minister, Finance Minister and 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of India. Following the death of Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, Desai was a strong contender for the position of Prime Minister, only to be defeated by Indira Gandhi in 1966. He was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister (as Minister of Finance) in Indira Gandhi's cabinet, until 1969. When Indian National Congress split in 1969 he became a part of the INC (O). After the controversial emergency was lifted in 1977, the political parties of the opposition fought together against the Congress (I), under the umbrella of the Janata Party, and won the 1977 election. Desai w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
States And Territories Of India
India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, with a total of 36 entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into districts and smaller administrative divisions. History Pre-independence The Indian subcontinent has been ruled by many different ethnic groups throughout its history, each instituting their own policies of administrative division in the region. The British Raj mostly retained the administrative structure of the preceding Mughal Empire. India was divided into provinces (also called Presidencies), directly governed by the British, and princely states, which were nominally controlled by a local prince or raja loyal to the British Empire, which held ''de facto'' sovereignty ( suzerainty) over the princely states. 1947–1950 Between 1947 and 1950 the territories of the princely states were politically integrated into the Indian union. Most were merged into existing provinces; others were organised into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurashtra University
Saurashtra University is a university in Gujarat state in India. This university was established on 23 May 1967, in Rajkot city, and the administrative headquarters are at Rajkot Rajkot () is the fourth-largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat after Ahmedabad, Vadodara, and Surat, and is in the centre of the Saurashtra region of Gujarat. Rajkot is the 35th-largest metropolitan area in India, with a population of .... History Saurashtra University was created on a rigorous demand, for a separate university out of Gujarat University (Ahmedabad), from the eminent educationists and freedom fighters of the Saurashtra region. The demand was more prominent after the creation of Gujarat state on May 1, 1961. The Saurashtra University Act was passed by the Legislative Assembly of Gujarat in the year 1965(Gujarat Act No. 39 of 1965). Saurashtra University, established on 23 May 1967, having two headquarters in the initial stage i.e. Rajkot and Bhavnagar. After the incorporati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guava
Guava () is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions. The common guava ''Psidium guajava'' (lemon guava, apple guava) is a small tree in the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae), native to Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America. The name guava is also given to some other species in the genus ''Psidium'' such as strawberry guava (''Psidium cattleyanum'') and to the pineapple guava, '' Feijoa sellowiana''. In 2019, 55 million tonnes of guavas were produced worldwide, led by India with 45% of the total. Botanically, guavas are berries. Types The most frequently eaten species, and the one often simply referred to as "the guava", is the apple guava ('' Psidium guayava''). Guavas are typical Myrtoideae, with tough dark heavy leaves that are opposite, simple, elliptic to ovate, and long. The flowers are white, with five petals and numerous stamens. The fruits are many-seeded berries. Etymology The term ''guava'' appears ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monsoon
A monsoon () is traditionally a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with annual latitudinal oscillation of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) between its limits to the north and south of the equator. Usually, the term monsoon is used to refer to the rainy phase of a seasonally changing pattern, although technically there is also a dry phase. The term is also sometimes used to describe locally heavy but short-term rains. The major monsoon systems of the world consist of the West African, Asia–Australian, the North American, and South American monsoons. The term was first used in English in British India and neighboring countries to refer to the big seasonal winds blowing from the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea in the southwest bringing heavy rainfall to the area. Etymology The etymology of the word monsoon is not wholl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saurashtra (region)
Saurashtra, also known as Sorath or Kathiawar, is a peninsular region of Gujarat, India, located on the Arabian Sea coast. It covers about a third of Gujarat state, notably 11 districts of Gujarat, including Rajkot District. It was formerly a Saurashtra (state), state of India before it merged with Bombay state. In 1961 it separated from Bombay and joined Gujarat. Location Saurashtra peninsula is bound on the south and south-west by the Arabian sea, on the north-west by the Gulf of Kutch and on the east by the Gulf of Khambhat. From the apex of these two gulfs, the Little Rann of Kutch and Khambhat, waste tracts half salt morass half sandy desert, stretch inland towards each other and complete the isolation of Kathiawar, except one narrow neck which connects it on the north-east with the mainland of Gujarat. The peninsula is sometimes referred to as Kathiawar after the Kathi (caste), Kathi Darbar, which once ruled most of the region. However, Saurashtra is not entirely synony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gujarat
Gujarat (, ) is a state along the western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the fifth-largest Indian state by area, covering some ; and the ninth-most populous state, with a population of 60.4 million. It is bordered by Rajasthan to the northeast, Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu to the south, Maharashtra to the southeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, and the Arabian Sea and the Pakistani province of Sindh to the west. Gujarat's capital city is Gandhinagar, while its largest city is Ahmedabad. The Gujaratis are indigenous to the state and their language, Gujarati, is the state's official language. The state encompasses 23 sites of the ancient Indus Valley civilisation (more than any other state). The most important sites are Lothal (the world's first dry dock), Dholavira (the fifth largest site), and Gola Dhoro (where 5 uncommon seals were found). Lothal i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juna Savar
Juna Savar is a village in the Amreli district of Gujarat, India. The Shetrunji River helps this village a lot, but sometimes it floods the village during monsoons. Asiatic lions live near the village. Kanani, Zalavadiya, Laheri, Bagda, Makwana (Jinjariya), and Boghra the are main surnames of this village. Overview The River Sentruji, which flows south to north during the monsoon season, is the main attraction of the city. Demographics There is a major presence of people with the surnames Zalavadiya,Kanani, Ankoliya, Bagda, Jinjariya, and Laheri in Juna Savar. Geography Juna Savar is situated on southern Saurashtra plateau. It has a hilly terrain and the ground water table is very low. The water contains high level of TDS counts along with excess level of sodium and phosphate. The water extracted from the bore-wells is found to be very hot. History and culture There is a temple of Goddess "Chamunda Chamunda (Sanskrit: चामुण्डा, ISO-15919: Cāmuṇḍ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
