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Calcutta Geographical Review. 1939

1939

The difference in the sun's heating of land and water in the northern and the southern hemisphere in spring and summer and in autumn and winter creates extensive and mobile areas of low presure; and generates the circulation of the winds which in India dfinitely follow the seasons and are therefore called monsoons. [...] The best utilized are the Godavari and the Krishna and the Cauvery; and the least the Narmada the Tapti and the Mahanadi. [...] The forests have been the home and defence of the aboriginals and fugitive peoples protecting them in their independence as for instance the Bhils Oraons Mundas Gonds Kolas of the Vindhyas; the Santals and Khonds of Chota Nagpur; the Savants of Agency Tracts of Ganjam; and the civilized Garhwals and Nepalese in the Himalayas. [...] Most of the railway lines and the provincial roads are running transverse to the rivers and streams and as such obstruct the natural drainage to a very great extent.22 CALCUTTA EOGRA PHI CAL REVIEW THE RIVERS OF THE AREA The main rivers of this part of the provinces are the Gogra the Sarda the Sarju the Rapti and amongst the. [...] The decrease in the capacity of the rivers due to shallowing up and the increase in the volume of water in the rivers cause overflow in all the rivers of the eastern United Provinces and this is also one of the causes of recurring floods.
agriculture environment
Pages
178
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120301
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
The Geographical Personality of India
1-i N. Subrahmanyam view
The 1938 Floods in the East United Provinces
19-iii M. P. Bajpai, M. L. Misra view
Geography of Seraikella State
35-44 Nirmalkumar Bose, Kanangopal Bagchi view
Prehistoric Mammal Life of the Late Cainozoic in N. W. Punjab India
45-50 D. Sen view
Geography of Puri and Adjoining Areas Orissa
51-iii S. P. Chatterjee view
The Support of the Himalaya Mountains: Are the Himalayas Compensated ?
55-66 D. N. Wadia view
New Light on the Sources of the Four Great Rivers of the Holy Kailas and Manasarovar
67-ii Pranavananda view
The Place of Geography in National Planning
i-80 S. P. Chatterjee view
The Topography of Mysore and its Relation to the Geology of the State
81-91 C. S. Pichamuthu view
The Cotton Mill Industry at Coimbatore
92-102 S. Narayanaswami view
Will Everest Be Conquered ?
103-109 Nafis Ahmed view
Teaching of Geography
110-112 L.J. Miles view
Ourselves
113-113 unknown view
Geographical Reviews
114-119 unknown view
The Calcutta Geographical Society
120-126 unknown view

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