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INDIA – LOCATION 3

Figure 1.1 : India : Administrative Divisions

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INDIA : PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
Figure 1.2 : Location of India in the Eastern World

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10 INDIA : PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Figure 2.2 : India : Physical

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AFGHANISTAN

Figure 3.2 : Major Rivers of India

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32 INDIA : PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Figure 4.2 : India : Normal Dates of Onset of the Southwest Monsoon

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36 INDIA : PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Figure 4.3 : India : Seasonal Rainfall (June-September)

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CLIMATE 39

Figure 4.4 : India : Annual Rainfall

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NATURAL VEGETATION 43

Figure 5.2 : Natural Vegetation

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NATURAL VEGETATION 49

Figure 5.8 : India : Biosphere Reserves

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58 INDIA : PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT

Figure 6.2 : India: Earthquake Hazard Zones

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NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS 61

Figure 6.4 : Wind and Cyclone Hazard Zones

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NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS 63

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Figure 6.6 : Flood Hazard Zones

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NATURAL HAZARDS AND DISASTERS 65

Figure 6.7 : Drought Prone Areas

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 Fig. 1.2 : India – Density of Population

4 India : People and Economy

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 Fig. 1.3 : India – Growth of Population

6 India : People and Economy

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Fig. 3.3 : India – Distribution of Rice

Land Resources and Agriculture 27

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Fig. 3.4 : India – Distribution of Wheat

Land Resources and Agriculture 29

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Fig. 3.6 : India – Distribution of Cotton and Jute

Land Resources and Agriculture 31

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Fig. 3.9 : India – Distribution of Sugarcane

Land Resources and Agriculture 33

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Fig. 3.11 : India – Distribution of Tea and Coffee

Land Resources and Agriculture 35

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Fig. 4.1 : India – River Basins

Water Resources 43

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 Fig. 4.2 : The Ganga and its Tributaries and Towns Located on them

gets polluted by foreign matters, such as Water Conservation and Management

micro-organisms, chemicals, industrial and
other wastes. Such matters deteriorate the Since there is a declining availability of
quality of water and render it unfit for human freshwater and increasing demand, the need
use. When toxic substances enter lakes, has arisen to conserve and effectively manage
streams, rivers, ocean and other water bodies, this precious life giving resource for sustainable
they get dissolved or lie suspended in water. development. Given that water availability from
This results in pollution of water, whereby sea/ocean, due to high cost of desalinisation,
quality of water deteriorates affecting aquatic is considered negligible, India has to take quick
systems. Sometimes, these pollutants also steps and make effective policies and laws, and
seep down and pollute groundwater. adopt effective measures for its conservation.
Besides developing water-saving technologies
and methods, attempts are also to be made to
Find out which are the major towns/cities located on prevent the pollution. There is need to
the bank of the Ganga and its tributaries and major encourage watershed development, rainwater
industries they have. harvesting, water recycling and reuse, and

Water Resources 45

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 Fig. 5.2 : India – Metallic Minerals (Ferrous)

56 India : People and Economy

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 Fig. 5.3 : India – Minerals (Non-Ferrous)

58 India : People and Economy

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 Fig. 5.4 : India – Conventional Energy Resources
Activity: Collect information about cross country natural gas pipelines laid by GAIL (India)
under ‘One Nation One Grid’.
60 India : People and Economy

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 Fig. 5.5 : India – Oil Refineries

62 India : People and Economy

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Fig. 8.4 : India – Major Ports and Sea Routes

International Trade 91

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Fig. 8.5 : India – Air Routes

International Trade 93

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