Dharmaj

Dharmaj
Dharmaj
Town
	Coordinates: 22°25′0″N 72°48′0″E / 22.41667°N 72.80000°E
Country	India
State	Gujarat
District	Anand
Elevation	25.60 m (83.99 ft)
Population (2010)
• Total	11,334
Languages
• Official	Gujarati, Hindi, English
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	388430
Telephone code	02697
Nearest city	Anand
Website	[1]

Dharmaj is a village in Petlad taluka, Anand district, Gujarat, India. As of the 2011 Census of India, the population was 10,429.^[1] The village is nicknamed the "village of NRIs" (Non-resident Indians) due to the large number of families who have moved abroad.^[2]

Notable people

Kantibhai Patel (1928 – 2011), Indian-born Zimbabwean anti-colonialist activist and politician^[3]
Achyut Yagnik (1946 – 2023), journalist and academic^[4]

References

^ "Dharmaj". 2011 Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
^ Chauhan, Ashish; Nazareth, Peter (8 December 2015). "Dalit families flee state's rich NRI village Dharmaj - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 May 2016.
^ "Kantibai Patel: One of a rare breed". The Herald. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ "અચ્યુત યાજ્ઞિક : વંચિતોના બેલીની વિદાયથી ગુજરાતે શું ખોયું?". BBC News ગુજરાતી (in Gujarati). 7 August 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

External links

[1] "Dharmaj". 2011 Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.

[2] Chauhan, Ashish; Nazareth, Peter (8 December 2015). "Dalit families flee state's rich NRI village Dharmaj - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 May 2016.

[RB-3] "Kantibai Patel: One of a rare breed". The Herald. Archived from the original on 15 December 2022. Retrieved 29 November 2023.

[:3-4] "અચ્યુત યાજ્ઞિક : વંચિતોના બેલીની વિદાયથી ગુજરાતે શું ખોયું?". BBC News ગુજરાતી (in Gujarati). 7 August 2023. Retrieved 3 September 2023.

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