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For the Indian musical form, see Dadra
Dadra

Dadra refers to two separate but originally linked concepts in Hindustani classical music....
.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Gujarati
Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan languages, and part of the greater Indo-European languages language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
: ????? ??? ??? ?????, Marathi: ????? ??? ??? ?????,is a Union Territory
States and territories of India

India is a Federal_republic union of states comprising twenty-eight State s and seven Union Territory. The states and territories are further Subdivisions of India into districts and so on....
 in western India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
. Nagar Haveli is wedged between Maharashtra
Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a States and territories of India located on the western coast of India. Maharashtra is a part of Western India. It is India's List of states of India by area and List of states of India by population....
 and Gujarat
Gujarat

Gujarat is a States and territories of India in western India. Gujarat borders Pakistan to the north west and the state of Rajasthan to the north and northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territory of Diu, Daman District, India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south....
, whereas Dadra is an enclave lying a few kilometres north of Nagar Haveli in Gujarat. Its capital is Silvassa
Silvassa

Silvassa is the capital of the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.The city has a large number of factories and industries providing significant government revenue, which allows the city to maintain a low level of taxation....
.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli are in the watershed of the Daman Ganga River
Daman Ganga River

The Daman Ganga is a river in western India. The river's headwaters are on the western slope of the Western Ghats range, and it flows west into the Arabian Sea....
, which flows through the territory.






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For the Indian musical form, see Dadra
Dadra

Dadra refers to two separate but originally linked concepts in Hindustani classical music....
.
Dadra and Nagar Haveli (Gujarati
Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan languages, and part of the greater Indo-European languages language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
: ????? ??? ??? ?????, Marathi: ????? ??? ??? ?????,is a Union Territory
States and territories of India

India is a Federal_republic union of states comprising twenty-eight State s and seven Union Territory. The states and territories are further Subdivisions of India into districts and so on....
 in western India
India

India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, the List of countries by population country, and the most populous liberal democracy in the world....
. Nagar Haveli is wedged between Maharashtra
Maharashtra

Maharashtra is a States and territories of India located on the western coast of India. Maharashtra is a part of Western India. It is India's List of states of India by area and List of states of India by population....
 and Gujarat
Gujarat

Gujarat is a States and territories of India in western India. Gujarat borders Pakistan to the north west and the state of Rajasthan to the north and northeast, Madhya Pradesh to the east, Maharashtra and the Union territory of Diu, Daman District, India, Dadra and Nagar Haveli to the south....
, whereas Dadra is an enclave lying a few kilometres north of Nagar Haveli in Gujarat. Its capital is Silvassa
Silvassa

Silvassa is the capital of the Indian Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli.The city has a large number of factories and industries providing significant government revenue, which allows the city to maintain a low level of taxation....
.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli are in the watershed of the Daman Ganga River
Daman Ganga River

The Daman Ganga is a river in western India. The river's headwaters are on the western slope of the Western Ghats range, and it flows west into the Arabian Sea....
, which flows through the territory. The towns of Dadra and Silvassa both lie on the north bank of the river. The Western Ghats
Western Ghats

The Western Ghats also known as the Sahyadri mountains, is a mountain range along the western side of India. It runs north to south along the western edge of the Deccan Plateau, and separates the plateau from a narrow coastal plain along the Arabian Sea....
 range rises to the east, and the foothills of the range occupy the eastern portion of the district. The territory is landlocked, although the Arabian Sea
Arabian Sea

The Arabian Sea is a region of the Indian Ocean bounded on the east by India, on the north by Pakistan and Iran, on the west by Arabian Peninsula, on the south, approximately, by a line between Cape Guardafui, the north-east point of Somalia, Socotra, Kanyakumari in India, and the western coast of Sri Lanka....
 coast lies just to the west in Gujarat.

The major spoken languages in the territory are Marathi, Hindi
Hindi

Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
 and Gujarati
Gujarati language

Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan languages, and part of the greater Indo-European languages language family. It is native to the Indian state of Gujarat, and is its chief language, as well as of the adjacent union territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
.

History


Portuguese Era

Dadra and Nagar Haveli was a Portuguese
Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
 colony, administered by the Portuguese Governor of Daman
Daman and Diu

Daman and Diu is a union territory in India.For over 450 years, these coastal enclaves on the Arabian Sea coast were part of Portuguese India, along with Goa and Dadra and Nagar Haveli....
, from 1779 until 1954 when the residents with some help from Goans and Damanians, under the banner of the United Front of Goans, Azad Gomantak Dal (AGD) and Goan People’s Party, ended the Portuguese administration.

Incorporation into Indian Union

Dadra was liberated on the night of July 21, 1954, by a group of native Goan and Indian volunteer fighters led by Francis Mascarenhas, Viman Sardesai and 10 others, after which the Azad Gomantak Dal--an organisation involved in resistance to Portuguese rule in India mounted an assault on Nagar Haveli with the assistance of volunteers from the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, a Hindu nationalist organisation previously active in Indian occupations of Kashmir and Hyderabad. The AGD volunteers attacked the local police post and the county headquarters on the night of July 28.

Naroli, Pimparia Post and then Silvassa fell to the Indians, before the Portuguese forces, numbering 150, led by Captain Virgilio Fidalgo, Lieutenant Marinho Falcao and Chefe Manuel Pegado moved to Khandvel, on the southern side of Nagar Haveli. While retreating to Khandvel, they were forced to halt at Rakholi for the night of August 2, since the Damanganga river had swelled. When the rains did not subside the next morning, they crossed all the same.

While the Portuguese set up rearguard defences on the river bank, the Indian volunteer forces crossed the flooded river with local ferries on August 10, assaulting the Portuguese forces at Khandvel and forcing them to retreat and eventually surrender to Indian border police.

Dadra and Nagar Haveli became, in the eyes of international law, an independent country. The residents of the colony requested the Government of India for administrative help. Mr. K.G. Badlani, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) was sent as the administrator.

From 1954 to 1961, the territory was administered by a body called the Varishta Panchayat of Free Dadra and Nagar Haveli.

In 1961 when Indian forces took over Goa, Daman, and Diu
Invasion of Goa

The Invasion of Goa also known as the Liberation of Goa or Portuguese-Indian War, codenamed Operation Vijay by the Government of India, was the Military of India action that ended Portuguese rule in its Portuguese India in 1961....
, Mr. Badlani was, for one day, designated the Prime Minister of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, so that, as Head of State, he could sign an agreement with the Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, and formally merge Dadra and Nagar Haveli with the Republic of India.

Administration


The territory is administered by a Lieutenant Governor. An area of 188 sq mi
Square mile

The square mile is an Imperial system and US customary system of measure for an area equal to the area of a square of one mile. It should not be confused with miles square, which refers to the number of miles on each side squared....
 or 487 km˛.

Economy

Dadra and Nagar Haveli's gross state domestic product for 2004 is estimated at $218 million in current prices.

Manufacturing is the main economy in Dadra and Nagar Haveli as the taxes are low — no excise tax. The excise tax is applicable in D&N.H. An exemption is only for sales taxes

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