Calcutta Geographical Review September 1944

It is interesting to no4-- that the Sindhu (Indus) the Gahga (the Ganges) and the BrafimaPutra take their riseON THE FALLACY OF THE SATPURA-MAHADEO-MAIKAI ONE 3 from the Mantis Sarorara region located near the mountain peak of The legendary and Greek accounts are not of any great value as regards the course of the Brahmaputra through Tibet and Assam and that of the Ganges group of rivers throug [...] the process of deformation of the earth the great mass of Africa acted as the hinteland or back-land which pressing northward against southern Europe crumpled it against the northern foreland and that in Asia the direction was reversed because the great mass which acted there as the driving hinterland lay to the north and the great depression in the crust lay to the south. [...] Mesozoic.—During the Mesozoic period sediments from the penisular highlands of the south built of the iron-bearing Dharwar and Archaean rocks (including the Delhi and Aravalli series) were tranported by the north-flowing rivers of the Gondwana continent and dicharged in the lagoons of the receding gulf.''` The strongly ferruginous sandstones and deep red and purple shales of this formati [...] The Fullers Earth and the Tertiary coal of Bikaner (Palana) were laid down during the Eocene period." In the middle of the Miocene period the sea finally retreated from the whole of the northern India and with minor oscillations the plain finally rose above sea-level. [...] While the North-West Punjab received a marked upheayal relatively to the area to the south-east and thus became a plateau out of the reach of the rapidly aggrading streams by far the greater part of the trough including the Ghaggar Plain persisted in its career of subsidence and deposition.