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Deccan

Triangular volcanic plateau in east India, stretching between the Vindhya Hills in the north, and the Western and Eastern Ghats in the south. The plateau reaches heights of 750 m/2,460 ft and is drained eastwards by the Godavari, Bhima and Krishna rivers, which have cut broad valleys. Cotton is the principal cash crop of the black lava soils, in association with millet, wheat, and other grains.

The Deccan was formed after fissure eruptions in the early Tertiary and late Cretaceous periods; lava to a thickness of 3,000 m/9,800 ft is found near Mumbai (formerly Bombay).



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Rather than casting his net around all the travel accounts of Europeans in India during this long stretch of almost four centuries, he has chosen to focus in on Vijayanagar, a Hindu kingdom in the southern Deccan plateau region which flourished from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries.
Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissance. South India Through European ... by Gordon, Leonard A. / Renaissance Quarterly
To the south, separated by mountains and hills, is the Deccan plateau.
INDIA by Chopra, Mannika / Junior Scholastic
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