A History of Agriculture in India v1.c7.2

v1.c7.2

THE most outstanding fact about the physical geography of India is the natural division of the country with three distinct segments of totally dissimilar character: (i) the Himalayas, the great mountain system to the north, (ii) the Indo-Gangetic alluvial plain of northern India extending from the Punjab to Assam, and (iii) the Peninsula of the Deccan to the south of the Vindhyas—a solid stable block of the earth's crust, largely composed of some of the most ancient rocks, which the denudation of ages has carved into a number of mountain ranges, plateaus, valleys and plains.