India and Pakistan: A General and Regional Geography

14 The Himalayas: Kashmir and Karakoram -- Methodological difficulties -- The Himalayas in general -- Sub-Himalayan Kashmir: Punch and Jammu -- The Pir Panjal -- The Vale of Kashmir -- Indus Kohistan and Gilgit -- The Great Himalaya and the Zaskar Range -- Ladakh and Baltistan -- The Karakoram -- 15 The Himalayas: Central and Eastern -- Himachal Pradesh -- Kumaon -- Nepal -- Eastern Nepal and Everest -- The Tista Valley -- Bhután -- 16 The Western Borderlands -- Baluchistan -- The Northwestern Hills -- The historical significance of 'The Frontier' -- The Sub-montane Indus Region -- The Trans-Indus Plains -- Potwar -- The Salt Range -- 17 The Indus Plains -- The Lower Indus (Sind) -- hydrography -- Agriculture -- Sind in general -- Karachi -- The Punjab -- Topography -- Climate and vegetation -- Agriculture: the development of canal irrigation -- sub-regional variation and settlement patterns -- Industry -- Communications and towns -- 18 The Gangetic Plains -- The Indo-Gangetic Divide -- Topography and hydrographic changes -- Agriculture -- The great highway and its towns -- Delhi -- The Upper Gangetic Plains -- Regional divisions -- Land and climate -- The agricultural foundations -- Agricultural life -- settlement, communications -- Industry -- The Five Cities -- The Middle Gangetic Plains -- Climate and topography -- Agriculture -- Population and industry -- 19 The Bengal Delta -- Sub-divisions -- The rivers -- Climate and vegetation -- Agrarian life -- The Duars -- The Ganga/Brahmaputra Doab -- The Eastern Margins -- The Western Margins -- The Ganga Delta proper -- The countryside -- Calcutta and Hooghlyside -- The Partition and its problems -- 20 The Eastern Borderlands: Assam and NEFA -- Individuality -- The Assam Valley -- The Shillong Plateau -- The Assam-Burma Ranges -- The Assam Himalaya: NEFA -- Assam as a whole