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    The Indo-Gangetic Plain, also known as the North Indian River Plain, is a 700-thousand km2 (172-million-acre) fertile plain encompassing northern regions...
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    the periphery, both geographically and culturally, of the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plain in the Greater Magadha cultural region. The Shakyas lived in the...
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    the Khasi Hills and Mizo Hills, and the watershed region of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.[clarification needed] The Ganges is the longest river originating...
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    wherein Indo-Aryans form the prominent majority population. It extends from the Himalayan mountain range in the north to the Indo-Gangetic plains, the Thar...
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    kilometers. The province comprised four natural geographic regions – Indo-Gangetic Plain West, Himalayan, Sub-Himalayan, and the North-West Dry Area – along...
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  • among many. Other examples are Narmada, Tapathi, and Godavari. The Indo gangetic plains are known as Ganga-Satluj Ka Maidaan (गँगा सतलुज का मैदान), this...
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    farmed for cereals and cotton. The plain is the western part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, which is formed by the Indus River and its tributaries - the Jhelum...
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  • world's area and is home to 17.5% of the world's population. The Indo-Gangetic Plain has one of the world's biggest stretches of fertile not-deep alluvium...
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    ranges, on the north by the Tibetan Plateau, and on the south by the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Some of the world's major rivers, the Indus, the Ganges, and the...
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    referring to the areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plain and surrounding regions settled by Indo-Aryan tribes and where Indo-Aryan religion and rituals predominated...
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    gusty, hot and dry summer wind from the west which blows over the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of North India and Pakistan. It is especially strong in the...
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    Indus basin (present-day Sindh). Later, the term referred to the Indo-Gangetic plain, and became the classical name of the region in Hindi-Urdu. It finally...
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    alluvial Ganges-Yamuna Doab region between itself and the Ganges in the Indo-Gangetic plain. Nearly 57 million people depend on the Yamuna's waters, and the...
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  • the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Indo-Gangetic Plains are generally thought of as a flat region with no variations, although this isn't true. The plains can...
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    while the flat lower portion consists of the middle portion of the Indo-Gangetic plains and the Thar Desert. Historically, Northwestern India was represented...
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    Ganges (redirect from Gangetic)
    tributaries and the Ganges and its tributaries, now forms the Indo-Gangetic Plain. The Indo-Gangetic Plain is geologically known as a foredeep or foreland basin...
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    purposes. Bihar is in Indo-Gangetic plain so naturally fertile soil is one asset of the state.[citation needed] Thus Indo-Gangetic plain's soil is the backbone...
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    until 185 BCE. The empire was centralized by the conquest of the Indo-Gangetic Plain; its capital city was located at Pataliputra (modern Patna). Outside...
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    Punjab region and the upper Gangetic Plain. Most historians also consider this period to have encompassed several waves of Indo-Aryan migration into the...
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    83 mi) long border includes the Himalayan territories as well as Indo-Gangetic Plain of the subcontinent. The current border was delimited after the Sugauli...
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    mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China to the north, and...
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    Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (category Indo-Aryan archaeological cultures)
    Ochre Coloured Pottery culture (OCP) is a Bronze Age culture of the Indo-Gangetic Plain "generally dated 2000–1500 BCE," extending from eastern Punjab to...
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    role in trade and the transfer of ideas and culture to and from the Indo-Gangetic Plain to the southern tip of India. The date and place of origin of the...
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    divisions by colonial officials on the decadal census data:: 2 : 4  IndoGangetic Plain West geographical division (including Hisar district, Loharu State...
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    NW-SE trending belts (Fig. 2). From SW to NE they are named the Indo-Gangetic Plain, Sub-Himalayan Sequence, Lesser Himalayan Sequence, Greater Himalayan...
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    subcontinent. Geographically, it is the region in and around the Indo-Gangetic Plain, including the Himalayas. Depending on definition, it covers some...
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  • Kushwaha (sometimes, Kushvaha) is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture, including beekeeping. The...
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    developed new characteristics different from the IA languages of the Indo-Gangetic plain. Although the Dardic and Nuristani (previously 'Kafiri') languages...
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    in what is now India. The Buddha then wandered through the lower Indo-Gangetic Plain, teaching and building a monastic order. Buddhist tradition holds...
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    predominant throughout the area, with the short-lived Pala Empire on the Indo Gangetic Plain sponsoring the Buddhist faith's institutions. One such institution...
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