India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey.

  • John Strachey
Date:
1903
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Credit: India, its administration & progress / Sir John Strachey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER II THE GEOGRAPHY OF INDIA The Indian Empire : area and population—The main features of Indian geography—The Indo-Gangetic plain—Presidencies and Provinces— The table-land of Central and Southern India—Physical causes of the great differences between the countries of India—The monsoons. The Indian Empire lias an area of more than 1,700,000 square miles, and a population of nearly 300 millions. In area and population it is greater than Europe with- out Kussia. A line drawn from its northern boundary beyond the mountains of Kashmir to Cape Comorin, the southern extremity of its vast peninsula, exceeds 2000 miles in length, a distance almost as great as that from Gibraltar to St. Petersburg. It is nearly equally far from the borders of Baluchistan on the west to the point where the eastern frontier of Assam approaches the frontier of China. Excluding Burma and the mountain countries of the north, India proper may be roughly divided into two regions. The first of these is a vast alluvial plain, lying im- mediately below the Himalaya, and stretching with an unbroken surface for some 1700 miles across Northern India. Its eastern and central portions are watered by the Ganges and Brahmaputra and their tributaries, the northern and western portions by the river-system of the
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