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Encyclopedia: Vindhya Range

The Vindhya Range (Sanskrit: विन्‍ध्य) is a range of hills in central India, which geographically separates the Indian subcontinent into northern India (the Indo-Gangetic plain) and Southern India.

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How to say "Vindhya Range" in other languages:

	(German)	Vindhyagebirge
	(French)	Vindhya

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Agastya

In Hinduism, Agastya is a legendary sage or rishi. He is reputed to have traveled to south India to teach the people there of the Vedic religion. On the way the Vindhya Range in central India, which had been growing uncontrollably to enormous height, bowed low out of respect to Agastya, accounting...

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Satpura Range

range parallels the Vindhya Range to the north, and these two east-west ranges divide the Indo... runs in the depression between the Satpura and Vindhya ranges, and draining the northern slope of the... western Vindhya Range, are within the Narmada valley dry deciduous forests ecoregion...

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Deccan sultanates

The Deccan sultanates were five Muslim-ruled kingdoms–-Bijapur, Golconda, Ahmednagar, Bidar, and Berar of south-central India. The Deccan sultanates were located on the Deccan plateau, between the Krishna River and the Vindhya Range. They became independent states after the breakup of the Bahmani...

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Dewas

gently to the Vindhya Range, which is the source of the Chambal and Kali Sindh rivers that flow north... the twin princely states of Dewas. The district straddles the Vindhya Range; the northern portion...

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Jhansi

the hill country of Bundelkhand, which slopes down from the Vindhya Range. The district consists of... Vindhya Range, and gradually spread themselves over the whole of the Bundelkhand region which now...

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Lalitpur

, sloping down from the outliers of the Vindhya Range on the south to the tributaries of the Jumna...

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Mandu

Mandu , or Mandogarh, is a ruined city in the Dhar District of western Madhya Pradesh state, central India. Mandu was the capital of the fifeenth century Muslim kingdom of Malwa. The city is situated at an elevation of 2079 ft. and extends for 8 miles along the crest of the Vindhya Range, over...

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Deccan

The Deccan Plateau is a vast plateau in India, encompassing most of Central and Southern India. It lies south of the Indo-Gangetic plain. It is bounded by the Western Ghats in the west, the Eastern Ghats to the east, the Nilgiris in the south and the Satpura and Vindhya ranges in the north. The...

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Nimar

Nimar is the southwestern region of Madhya Pradesh state in west-central India. The region lies south of the Vindhya Range, and consists of two portions of the Narmada and Tapti river valleys, separated by a section of the Satpura Range, about 15 miles in breadth. On the highest peak, about 800 ft...

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Madhya Pradesh

straddles the Narmada River, which runs east and west between the Vindhya and Satpura ranges; these... the state, north of the Vindhya Range. Indore is the major city of the region, while Bhopal lies on... southeast of the state, which includes the eastern end of the Vindhya Range. Mahakoshal (Mahakaushal...

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