Thanks again for your efforts on my behalf...A close look at
the "India" map in the "Hammond Citation" atlas (revised 2003)
clearly shows the island of "Anjidiv" located just to the south of
Goa and off the northern coast of Karnataka.It also clearly shows
that it is considered to be part of Daman-Diu,the 2 major units of
which are located a very substantial distance to the north (in the
Dadra-Nagar Haveli-Gujarat area) .An image search I did on Google
also showed a "map" that included the three parts ...Daman-Diu-
Anjidiv as 3 separate "insets" but my attempt to follow through on
this lead was thwarted by a dead link.I have, as you too evidently
have, uncovered VAST quantities of tantalizing historical data
about Anjidiv"s connection with Goa in the colonial period..My
concern is ...Which entity..Goa..or Daman-Diu actually has title to
the island NOW(2004)? I sent out emails to various Indian tourist
agencies etc. and received a reply(which i will attach after my
remarks) from someone representing Goa as the rightful claimant..but
the "tone" of the email is rather "defensive" almost as if the
matter had been decided against Goa and the email author is
attempting to take issue with the result...after all the Hammond
Citation indicates that Anjidiv,indeed, does belong to Daman-
Diu..in spite of it's relative proximity to Goa.Could it be that
when Goa-Daman-Diu was divided into two separate territories....Goa
AND Daman-Diu ..the island of Anjidiv was ,for whatever reason,
assigned to Daman-Diu in the face of obvious "geographical-
proximity' concerns on the part of Goa?? Muchas gracias otra vez por
su ayuda....raedwulf.
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:34:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: "godfrey gonsalves" <
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Subject: ANJEDIVA's statust as of now
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Yes Anjediv is legally still attached to Goa. To cede
a part of a territory requires an Act of Parliament.
It means that Parliament should vote for such an
Amendment in the Constitution ceding a part of its
land to another state or to create another entity.
This has yet not been done.
Considering that it is the Defence Ministry's
requirement this seems to have been overlooked by our
ex Parliamentarians but time and again writers like
the undersigned keep the authorities reminded on this
necessity.
Godfrey J I Gonsalves
Borda Margao Goa
gonsalvesgodfreyji@...
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> ok i had a feeling you might have been looking either for the
> mentioned former detached inland section of diu called nagar
> haveli
> or else for the also mentioned but unnamed yet still extant
> mainland complement to diu island
> which does in fact bring to 3 the number of discrete extant parts
> of daman diu
> including 1 island & 1 other piece whose name could have
> answered to your anjidiv or angediva
>
> but lo here it is
> presumably a 4th piece
> http://72.1911encyclopedia.org/G/GO/GOA.htm
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16"
> <raedwulf16@y...> wrote:
> > Hi Thanks for the swift response..What I am looking for would
> be
> > more current than historical..I know that "Goa- Daman and Diu"
> were
> > all one political entity when taken by India from Portugal ...I
am
> > equally certain that Goa has been separated from Daman and
> Diu since
> > that time.
>
> do you mean you think this source is wrong in giving separate
> dates of 1961 & 1987 for these 2 events
>
> I once saw...somewhere... a map that showed "Daman and
> > Diu" as consisting of three discrete parts.. and i think the
part
> > in question was an island .. to the south.. called
> > possibly "Anjidiv" or "Angediva" ???....in one source it said
> > that "Daman and Diu" is politically "unitary"...but that need
not
> > preclude separate geographical "units" ..I think those
> geographical
> > units are Daman,Diu, and this "unknown as yet to me"
> island??..
> > Thanks again..I will find it... Possibly in Miriam-Webster's
> > geographical dictionary...if I can get my paws on a copy. hasta
> la
> > vista ...Nos
> >
vemos...Saturday.....raedwulf
> > In
> > BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
> wrote:
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "raedwulf16"
> > > <raedwulf16@y...> wrote:
> > > > Am I mistaken in thinking that there is a third somewhat
> > > smaller
> > > > part of this "union territory"(Daman Diu) somewhere to the
> > > south on
> > > > India's west coast? I think it is an island....(I might
possibly
> > > > have it confused with another part of Goa??)
> > >
> > > do you mean mistaken in thinking that there is
> > > or mistaken in thinking that there was
> > >
> > > but this may settle everything on all the bits & pieces
> > >
> > http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Daman.asp