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Discuss the role of spatial pattern of rainfall and temperature in the delimitation of climatic regions of India especially with reference to Stamp’s climatic regionalization.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Physical Setting

India has a tropical monsoon climate as a whole, but its subcontinental dimensions produce large regional variations in rainfall and temperature, which is what makes regionalisation necessary at all.

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  • Why Rainfall Dominates the Delimitation
  • Temperature as the First Cut
  • Stamp's Eleven Regions
  • Continental or Temperate India
  • Tropical India
  • Assessment and Current Standing

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