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A map showing the Doab region A map showing the Delhi territory and the Hissar district of the Punjab. The Doab famine of 1860–1861 was a famine in India that affected the Ganga-Yamuna Doab in the North-Western Provinces, large parts of Rohilkhand and Awadh, the Delhi and Hissar divisions of the Punjab, all in British India, then under Crown rule, and the eastern regions of the princely ...
Doab (English: / ˈ d oʊ ɑː b /) is a term used in South Asia [1] for the tract [2] [1] of land lying between two confluent rivers. It is similar to an interfluve. [3] In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor refers to its Persian origin in defining it as do-āb (دوآب, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."
The term "Doaba" or "Doab" is derived from Persian دو آب (do āb, literally "two [bodies of] water"), and signifies a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers. [3] The river Sutlej separates Doaba from the Malwa region of India to its south and the river Beas separates Doaba from the Majha region, split between ...
Upper Doab famine of 1860–1861 This page was last edited on 21 November 2024, at 22:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4. ...
The Upper Doab region The Upper Doab region, and Western Uttar Pradesh as a whole were among the only places in India to benefit a lot from the Green Revolution in the 1960s [5] The main crop grown in the Upper Doab is sugarcane [6] the sale mechanisms of crops are different from the rest of India as opposed to the mandi system, the produce is brought directly by mills [7]
Punjab historically has been divided into regions based on its various rivers, since the name Punjab is based on its five main rivers. Rachna Doab is a Doab or tract of land in the Punjab region, encompassing all the area lying between the Ravi and Chenab Rivers, all the way from the Jammu Division till their confluence in Punjab, Pakistan. It ...
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In any doab, khadar land (green) lies next to a river, while bangur land (olive) has greater elevation and lies further from the river. Khādir or Khadar and Bangar, Bāngur or Bhangar (Hindi language: खादर और बांगर, Urdu languageکهادر اور بانگر) are terms used in Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi in the Indo-Gangetic plains of North India and Pakistan to ...