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Vindhya Range
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Vindhya Range , chain of hills, c.600 mi (970 km) long, rising to c.3,000 ft (910 m), Madhya Pradesh state, central India. The Vindhya Range has been the historic dividing line between N and S India, separating...
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Ala-ud-din
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...commercial center, and drew up plans to usurp the sultanate. In 1296 he became the first Moslem invader to penetrate the Vindhya Mountains into the Deccan and, after defeating the Hindu raja of Devagiri, obtained a booty that contained 17,250 pounds...
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Bhil
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...from Tribal group to caste under way among the Bhils. Location. The area occupied by the Bhil is the forested lands of the Vindhya and Satpura hills in the western portion of central India between 20 ° and 25 ° N and 73 ° and 77...
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Korku
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...then redivided among her sons. Bibliography Deogaonkar, S. G. (1990). The Korku Tribals. Delhi: Concept Publishers. Fuchs, Stephen (1988). The Korkus of the Vindhya Hills. New Delhi: Inter-India Publications. LeSHON KIMBLE
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Indore
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1818, Indore became tributary to the British. Indore, city (1991 pop. 1,109,065), on the Malwa plateau near the Vindhya escarpment, became important in the late 18th cent. It was the capital of the maharajas of Indore and is the site of their...
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Chandragupta
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of Asoka . He conquered the Magadha kingdom (in modern Bihar and Jharkhand) and eventually controlled all India N of the Vindhya Hills. In c.305, Chandragupta, with a huge army, defeated Seleucus I (Nicator) who had invaded NW India in an attempt...
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Madhya Pradesh
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...British occupied it in 1820, and from 1903 to 1950 it was known as Central Provinces and Berar. In 1956, Madhya Bharat, Vindhya Pradesh, and Bhopal incorporated to form the new state of Madhya Pradesh. Lying between the Deccan and Gangetic plains...
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Gujaratis
Encyclopedia entry from: Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...Ahmadabad and northern Gujarat. Fringing this area on the north and east are the uplands of the southern Aravallis, the western Vindhya and Satpura Ranges, and the Western Ghats. The southern areas are good for farming, even though most of the state is dry...
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Narmada
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...river, c.775 mi (1,250 km) long, rising in Madhya Pradesh state, central India, and flowing W between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges through Gujarat state to the Gulf of Khambat. Because the river is turbulent and confined between steep banks, it...
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India
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and Son rivers rise to the low plateaus of Malwa in the west and Chota Nagpur in the east. The Narmada River, south of the Vindhya hills, marks the beginning of the Deccan. The triangular plateau, scarped by the mountains of the Eastern Ghats and Western...
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