Dharmaj is a village in Petlad taluka,

Anand district Anand District is an administrative district of Gujarat state in western India and whose popular nickname is Charotar. It was carved out of the Kheda district in 1997. Anand is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is bounde ...

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, 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 List of states and union territories ...

, India. As of the 2011 Census of India, the population was 10,429. The village is nicknamed the "village of NRIs" (

Non-resident Indians Overseas Indians (ISO: ), officially Non-Resident Indians (NRIs) and People of Indian Origin (PIOs) are people of Indian descent who reside or originate outside of India (Including those that were directly under the British Raj). According to t ...

) due to the large number of families who have moved abroad.

Notable people

* Kantibhai Patel (1928 – 2011), Indian-born Zimbabwean anti-colonialist activist and politician * Achyut Yagnik (1946 – 2023), journalist and academic

References

External links

* https://web.archive.org/web/20131101115738/http://mydharmaj.com/index.aspx * http://www.shreejalaram.org/inde1.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20141124050257/http://dharmajgampanchayat.org/ {{Anand district Villages in Anand district