A History of Agriculture in India v1.c8.s2.1

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The investigations of Voelcker in 1893, and those of Leather in 1898, led to a classification of Indian soils into four major types: (i) the Indo-Gangetic alluvium; (ii) the black cotton or *regur* soils; (iii) the red soils lying on metamorphic rocks; and (iv) the lateritic soils. Various types of soils, according to the findings of the Soil Survey of India, are shown in Fig. 4.