GEOG 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Economic Restructuring, Indirect Rule, Geopolitics
13 Oct 2016
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Subcontinent: divides oceans, divided by mountains, deserts, and fertile valleys. Influenced by environmental diversity: unified by british colonial period, religious partitions: muslim, hindu, and buddhist. Pakistan and india linked culturally and in fight over kashmir. Indian plate and eurasian plate: accordion-like crust formations. Himalaya mountains: high evaluation conditions, permanent snow and ice provide melt waters, headwaters of great rivers. Ganges river, indus river, and brahmaputra river. Monsoon: annual rains: northern hemisphere summer conditions. Warm air rises as low pressure or over mountains. Water in air condenses into rain: driven by winds onto subcontinent, blocked and directed by himalayas. Northern mountains: hindu kush and karakoram ranges in west. Dry and barren: himalayas in center. Mount everest: ranges of bhutan and arunachal pradesh in east. Transitional foothills: valleys cut by meltwater. River lowlands: pakistan"s lower indus river valley. Punjab = land of five rivers : north indian plain. Double delta of ganges and brahmaputra rivers.
