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The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi river lies to the south. The total area of the Chota Nagpur Plateau is ...
Chota Nagpur Plateau area. Political Divisions. 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India map section. Chota Nagpur Division, also known as the South-West Frontier, was an administrative division of British India. It included most of the present-day state of Jharkhand as well as adjacent portions of West Bengal, Orissa, and Chhattisgarh.
The Chota Nagpur Tributary States [1] or Chota Nagpur States were a group of small, non-salute states (minor princely states) during the British Raj in India, located on the Chota Nagpur Plateau. British suzerainty over the states was exercised through the government of the Bengal Presidency .
The Central Highlands of India is a large geological structure and biogeographic region located between the Deccan plateau and the Indo-Gangetic plains consisting of number of mountain ranges, including Vindhya and Aravali ranges, and the Chota Nagpur and Malwa plateaus. [1] It is the single most important feature of Central India.
The Rarh region lies between the Chota Nagpur Plateau on the west [9] and the chief flow of the Ganges river (which has been continuously changing) in the east. [1] The Rarh plains comprise the lower Gangetic plains to the south of the Ganges, and to the west of its Bhagirathi-Hooghly distributary. [10] These plains are formed of old alluvial ...
The Chota Nagpur Plateau receives an average annual rainfall of around 1,400 mm (55 in), almost all of it in the monsoon months between June and August. [8] The huge volume of water that flows down the Damodar and its tributaries during the monsoons used to be a fury in the upper reaches of the valley.
Chota Nagpur may refer to: Chota Nagpur Plateau, in eastern India; Chota Nagpur Division, a division of British India; Chota Nagpur Tributary States, a collection of princely states of British India (historic) North Chotanagpur division, one of the five divisions in the Indian state of Jharkhand
Chota Nagpur Plateau The Vindhya Range (also known as Vindhyachal ) ( pronounced [ʋɪnd̪ʱjə] ) is a complex, discontinuous chain of mountain ridges , hill ranges, highlands and plateau escarpments in west-central India .