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The Regions of the World. India

1904

On the extreme north Matting on the north-west of Kashmir the Pamirs (well called the Roof of the World) flank the depression north f the Tibetan plateau westward and mark the geogrpleat cehtre front which spring the Kuen LuR hedging in Tibetto The north ; the Himalayas dividing Tibet from India ; the Thian-shan which are but the south-western links in the central orographical axis of Asia [...] The present shape of the peninsula—itself but a remnant of a far more widely extended continent—has only been assumed since the occurrence of the vast series of earth movements which resulted in the creation of the region of depression—the alluvial basins of the Indus and of the Ganges. [...] The plains of India have ever airnished the hills of the frontier with a vicarious subsistence of this nature but the ruggedness and intricacy of that bordeland was far too effective and the savage energy of the Rind descendants of early Arab occupation or of the Pathan clans of the Sulimanis was too well appreciated for any treat show of reprisal or for The conduct of a hill warfare such [...] With the exception of tgis Muhammadimi and itharim desert of the delta of the PurAli River Of Las Bela and of the Kachhi or desert which stretches from Jicobabad to the mouth of the Bolan pass the whole country is mountainous. [...] The Kachhi or flat alluvial plain of Kach Gandava (which may justly he termed desert in all that central part of it occupied by the railway and which is annually subject to flooding by the spill waters of the Indus) carries the line almost to the heart of the province ere it touches the hills at the debouchment of the Bolan and the Nari streams.
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Pages
395
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142134
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Frontmatter
i-xii Thomas Hungerford view
Chapter I: Early India
1-23 unknown view
Chapter II: The Geography of The Frontier : Baluchistan
24-55 unknown view
Chapter III: The Geography of the Frontier: Afghanistan
56-101 unknown view
Chapter IV: Kashmir and the Himalayas
102-129 unknown view
Chapter V: The Geography of the Indian Peninsula
130-169 unknown view
Chapter VI: Assam Burma and Ceylon
170-199 unknown view
Chapter VII: The People of India
200-iii unknown view
Chapter VIII: Political Geography
229-i unknown view
Chapter IX: Agriculture and Revenue
255-280 unknown view
Chapter X: Railways
281-i unknown view
Chapter XI: Minerals
319-343 unknown view
Chapter XII: Climate
344-362 unknown view
Index
363-375 unknown view

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