Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s13: 11. Gujarat
Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s13
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11. Gujarat
c4.s13.1
Gujarat consists of three distinct units—Kutch, Saurashtra and Gujarat. While the first is mostly marshy, and sandy, but having a rocky core, the great mass of Saurashtra is formed by the Deccan lavas, the rest by earlier sandstone rocks, while the coast is made by the recent alluvium. It is probable that not long ago Saurashtra was an island.
c4.s13.2
The major rivers of Saurashtra are the Bhadar and the Shetrunji. The basin of the former is considered the richest agricultural area, the other favoured regions being the Gohilwad low-land along the Nal depression and Sorath, a portion of south-west Saurashtra.
c4.s13.3
Gujarat proper has three zones : the purely coastal belt of Southern and Central Gujarat, then the large tract formed by the eolian sand and alluvium (old and new) formed by the Sabarmati, Mahi and other smaller, parallel flowing streams and the easternmost hilly and jungle country which forms, as it were, a bridge between Malwa, Gujarat and Rajputana.