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With the help of regional examples, elaborate on the diversity in rural settlement types found across India.

  • 15 marks
  • Settlements

No map of India's villages is one map. From the nucleated canal villages of Punjab to the dispersed hilltop hamlets of Nagaland, from the oasis clusters of Jaisalmer to the raised machan settlements of Majuli, the Indian countryside exhibits one of the world's widest ranges of settlement form. As R. L. Singh and Majid Husain…

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  • 1. The Himalayas: relief, tribalism and transhumance
  • 2. The Indo-Gangetic plains: alluvium, irrigation and agrarian density
  • 3. The peninsular plateau: dissection, soils and tribal pockets
  • 4. Coastal plains and deltas: hydrology and livelihood
  • 5. Arid Rajasthan: water as the prime determinant
  • 6. Islands and flood-prone regions: extreme adaptation
  • …and 3 more sections, with a conclusion

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