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{{Short description|UnionFormer union territory in western India}}

{{about|the former union territory|the current union territory of India|Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu}}

| name = Daman and Diu

| image = {{Photomontage

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| nation = India

| status_text = = [[Union territory]]

| capital = [[Daman, India|Daman]]

| year_start = 1987

| date_start = 30 May

| event_start = 20 August 2022 =

| year_end = 2020

| date_end = 26 January

| event_end = Formation of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

| p1 = Goa, Daman and Diu

| flag_p1 = Emblem of Goa, Daman and Diu.png

| s1 = Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

| flag_s1 = Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu emblem.png

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| symbol_type = Seal

| image_coat = Seal of Daman and Diu.svg

| image_map = IN-DD.svg

| image_map_caption = Map of Daman and Diu

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| political_subdiv = [[Districts of India|2 districts]]

| title_leader = [[Administrator of Daman and Diu|Administrator]]

| leader1 = Gopal Singh

| year_leader1 = 1987 (''first'')

| leader2 = [[Praful Khoda Patel]]

| year_leader2 = 2019 (''last'')

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| stat_area1 = 112

| stat_pop1 = 242,911

'''Daman and Diu''' ({{IPAc-en|d|ə|ˈ|m|ɑː|n|...|'|d|iː|uː}}; {{audio|Daman & Diu.ogg|locally}}) was a former [[union territory]] in northwestern [[India]]. With an area of {{cvt|112|km2}}, it was the smallest administrative subdivision of India on the mainland. The territory comprised two districts, [[DamaonDaman district, India|Daman]] and [[DioDiu Island|Diu island]], geographically separated by the [[Gulf of Khambat]]. The state of [[Gujarat]] and the [[Arabian Sea]] bordered the territory. A [[Portuguese India|Portuguese]] colony since the 1500s, the territories were taken by India with the [[Annexation of Goa]] in 1961. Daman and Diu were administered as part of the union territory of [[Goa, Daman and Diu]] between 1961 and 1987,. afterAfter the [[Goa Opinion Poll]], they became a separate union territory. In 2019, legislation was passed to merge the union territory of Daman and Diu with its neighbouring union territory, [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli]], to form the new union territory of [[Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu]] with effect from 26 January 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indusdictum.com/2019/12/04/dadra-nagar-haveli-and-daman-diu-uts-merge-for-better-admin-efficiency-service-mos-home/|title=Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu UTs merge for 'better admin efficiency, service': MoS Home|first=The ID|last=Staff|date=4 December 2019|website=Indus Dictum|access-date=5 December 2019|archive-date=11 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111061240/https://indusdictum.com/2019/12/04/dadra-nagar-haveli-and-daman-diu-uts-merge-for-better-admin-efficiency-service-mos-home/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

On 3 November 2019, Daman [[District magistrate|Collector]] Rakesh Minhas issued a [[Unlawful assembly#India|Section 144]] order banning peaceful assembly of four or more persons, slogan-shouting and the use of loudspeakers across the entire district and ordered the conversion of Government High School, Bhimpore and the Government Sarvottam High School, Moti Daman into 'temporary jails'.<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 November 2019|title=Daman: Section 144 Imposed, Two Government Schools Converted Into 'Temporary Jails'|url=https://thewire.in/rights/section-144-daman-protests-evictions|access-date=2 March 2021|work=The Wire|language=en}}</ref> This was in response to a land ownership dispute between the local indigenous fishing community and the [[List of administrators of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu|local administration]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=5 November 2019|title=Demolition of houses: Section 144 in Daman after residents protest|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/ahmedabad/demolition-of-houses-section-144-in-daman-after-residents-protest-6103699/|access-date=2 March 2021|work=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref> that had confiscated their land and bulldozed their homes. The ensuing [[2019 Daman Indigenous Land Clearing Protests]] resulted with the detention of 70 protesters in the 'temporary jails' and another 8 arrests. Few of the [[adivasi]] fisherfolk were rehoused whilst most languished traumatised and homeless on the streets near the rubble of their razed homes.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Uppal|first=Jas|date=6 January 2020|title=Daman – Land and Property Owned by the Fishing Communities Confiscated and Homes Demolished|url=https://www.justiceupheld.org.uk/daman-land-and-property-owned-by-the-fishing-communities-confiscated-and-homes-demolished/|access-date=2 March 2021|website=Justice Upheld|language=en}}</ref>