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The Indo-Gangetic Plain is divided into two drainage basins by the Delhi Ridge, which is a northern extension of the Aravalli Hills. The western part is drains by the Indus, and the eastern part consists of the Ganga–Brahmaputra river systems. [26] [27] The plains encompassed four distinct geographical regions: [23]
The Indo-Gangetic Plain forms the ... the region is home to about half a billion people and is the poorest ... regional political dynasties emerged that formed ...
With the Turko-Afghan conquests over the Indo-Gangetic plains in medieval India, Delhi and its surrounding plains along the river Yamuna became the political and cultural capital of these Persianate dynasties. Delhi came to prominence because of its strategic location, the west of which was the fertile but open Indus plains and east of which ...
the Indo-Gangetic plain, which spans the states and union territories of Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Jharkhand. the Himalayas and sub-Himalayan belt, which lie in the states of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal; the Thar desert, which lies mainly in the state of Rajasthan.
The Pratiharas first united the Indo-Gangetic Plain under Nagabhata I (c. 730–760), who has defeated an Islamic invasion of northern India. [148] The struggle between the four lasted for almost 200 years. [149] By the ninth century, the Ghaznavids, a breakaway from the caliphate, arose after taking advantage of the others' internal weaknesses ...
In the former seabed immediately south of the emerging Himalayas, plate movement created a vast trough, which, having gradually been filled with sediment borne by the Indus and its tributaries and the Ganges and its tributaries, [34] now forms the Indo-Gangetic Plain. [35] The Indo-Gangetic Plain is geologically known as a foredeep or foreland ...
According to Greek sources, the Nanda army was five times the size of the Macedonian army; [4] Alexander's troops—increasingly exhausted, homesick, and anxious by the prospects of having to further face large Indian armies throughout the Indo-Gangetic Plain—mutinied at the Hyphasis River, refusing to
Kushwaha (sometimes, Kushvaha) [4] is a community of the Indo-Gangetic Plain that has traditionally been involved in agriculture, including beekeeping. [5] The term has been used to represent different sub-castes of the Kachhis, Kachhvahas, [6] Koeris and Muraos.