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Geography Optional 300+ Score Pack · Model answer

Present a comparative analysis of geographical factors responsible for distribution of human settlements in Rajasthan desert and North-Eastern regions of India.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Settlements

The contrast is run on eight stated controls — water availability, relief and slope, soil and cultivable land, climate, vegetation and forest cover, ethnicity and social organisation, security, and transport accessibility — after Ram Lochan Singh, who read village siting outward from the water point.

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  • The Criteria on Which the Two Regions Are Set Against Each Other
  • Water: One Control Playing Two Opposite Roles
  • Relief, Soil and the Land Base
  • Climate, Occupance Rhythm, Security and Access
  • Judgement: Two Scarcities, Not Two Climates

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