The Personality of India: Pre- and Proto-historic Foundation of India and Pakistan c10.23

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India displays both these phenomena and stands midway. The chief river basins of the country: the Indus, Ganges, Narbada, Tapi, Godavari, Krishna and Kaveri, were in turn penetrated and exploited by large scale agricultural communities, driving the older and static people in a more primitive economy into the forested mountains, where they have survived to this day. The main river basins of the country, with a rainfall between 20 and 40 inches, which can sustain large scale agricultural communities, have been colonized or occupied. One can notice a fine correlation between this optimal rainfall zone and the vegetation map of the country showing the areas cleared for cultivation. (Fig. 3).