If you want to discover more in-depth information on India as a country, check out ourIndia Profile! Plus, test your country knowledge with our Indian geography quiz on theIndia Map! History of India The history of India dates back thousands of years. Ancient civilizations such as theIndus ...
Some geographers subdivide the Indo-Gangetic Plain into three parts: the Indus Valley (mostly in Pakistan), the Punjab (divided between India and Pakistan) and Haryana plains, and the middle and lower Ganga. These regional distinctions are based primarily on the availability of water. By another ...
India On a Large Wall Map of Asia: If you are interested in India and the geography of Asia our large laminated map of Asia might be just what you need. It is a large political map of Asia that also shows many of the continent's physical features in color or shaded relief. Major ...
India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geographydoi:10.2307/142416"India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography." Economic Geography, 31(1), pp. 91–92RobertDartmouthE.DartmouthHukeDartmouthInformaworldEconomic Geography
This has subsequently triggered a boom in comparative studies of the two Asian giants. 1 This chapter adds to the literature by focusing on regional growth in the two countries. In particular, it attempts to explore how regional economies in the two vast countries have performed during the ...
A Regional Guide to Books Published by The Hakluyt Society INDIA Compiled by Lionel Knight1 Introduction With the choice of Magellan's ship, the Victoria, as their logo, the founders of the Hakluyt Society confirmed their international intentions. The authors of the works reviewed below range ...
Honorary Editor, Transactions of the Institute of Indian Geographers; former Professor of Geography, University of Poona, Pune. Author ofEnvironment, Forest Ecology and Man in the Western Ghats... K.R. Dikshit•All Fact-checked by The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
There are many regional variants from the simple agglomerated-villages pattern. Hamlets, each containing only one or a few castes, commonly surround villages in the eastern Gangetic Plain; Scheduled Castes and herding castes are likely to occupy such hamlets. In southern India, especiallyTamil Nadu,...
India Geography Superlatives India has some the world's highest mountains and a large high-lying area in the southern part of the country, the Deccan plateau. Thehighest mountain in India is the Kangchenjunga. This is also the third highest mountain in the world with 8,586 m/28,169 ft. ...
Medieval IndiaThe decline of the Guptas in North India, and the consequent rise of a large but ineffective number of regional powers made the political situation very fluid and unstable by the ninth century AD. This paved the way for the Muslim invasion into India during the early half of th...