ABSTRACT

India forms a great irregular triangle, stretching southwards from Mid-Asia into the sea. The eastern nations of Asia, like the western races of Europe, derived their name for India from the great river of the Punjab. India is shut off from the rest of Asia on the north by a vast mountainous region, known in the aggregate as the Himalayas. Many of the other holy rivers of India borrow their sanctity from a supposed underground connection with the Ganges. The Hala, Brahui, and Pab mountains form the southern hilly offshoots between India and Baluchistan ; but they have a much less elevation than the Safed Koh or the Suldiman. The railway system of India taps the Brahmaputra at Godlanda and Dhubri; while a network of channels through the Sundarbans supply a cheaper means of water transit for bulky produce across the delta to Calcutta.