Doab
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Doab (English: /ˈdoʊɑːb/) is a term used in South Asia[1] for the tract[2][1] of land lying between two confluent rivers. It is similar to an interfluve.[3] In the Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, R. S. McGregor defines it as from Persian do-āb (دوآب, literally "two [bodies of] water") "a region lying between and reaching to the confluence of two rivers."
Khadir, bangar, barani, nali and bagar
Since
Khadir is also called nali or naili, specially in northern Haryana the fertile
Within bangar area, the barani is any low rain area where the rain-fed dry farming is practiced, which nowadays are dependent on the tubewells for irrigation.
Historically, villages in the doabs have been officially classified as khadir, khadir-bangar (i.e. mixed) or bangar for many centuries, and different agricultural tax rates applied based on a tiered land-productivity scale.[10][11]
The Doab
The Doab designates the flat alluvial tract between the Ganges and Yamuna rivers extending from the Sivalik Hills to the two rivers' confluence at Prayagraj. It is also called as Ganges-Yamuna Doab or Ganga Doab. The region has an area of about 23,360 square miles (60,500 square km); it is approximately 500 miles (805 km) in length and 60 miles (97 km) in width.[12]
The
Currently the following states and districts form part of The Doab:[12]
Upper Doab
Central or Middle Doab
Etah, Kasganj, Aligarh, Agra, Hathras, Firozabad, Mainpuri and Mathura is in the trans-Yamuna region of Braj.
Lower Doab
The Punjab Doabs
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Each of the tracts of land lying between the confluent rivers of the
Indus Sagar Doab
The Indus Sagar Doab lies between the Indus and Jhelum rivers.[citation needed]
Chaj Doabs
The Chaj Doab lies between the Jhelum and the Chenab rivers.[citation needed]
Rachna Doabs
The Rachna Doab (considerable portion of the Rechna Doab is Majha[14]) lies between the Chenab and the Ravi rivers.[citation needed]
Bari Doabs
The
Bist Doab
The
]Other doabs
Raichur Doab
The Raichur Doab is the triangular region of Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka states which lies between the Krishna River and its tributary the Tungabhadra River, named for the town of Raichur.[citation needed]
See also
- Ap (water)
- Interamnia, an ancient Latin placename, meaning "between rivers"
- Mesopotamia, in Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία '[land] between rivers'.
Notes
- ^ a b doab or duab, n., OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2014, retrieved 24 April 2019 Quote: "Originally and chiefly in South Asia: (the name of) a strip or narrow tract of land between two rivers; spec. (with) the area between the rivers Ganges and Jumna in northern India."
- ^ doab or duab, n., OED Online, Oxford University Press, March 2014, retrieved 24 April 2019 Quote: "confluence, land between two rivers, used in India of the tongue of land between the Ganges and Jumna, and of similar tracts in the Punjab, etc., lit. ‘two waters’ "
- ^ Doab., Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged., 2013, retrieved 24 April 2019 Quote: " a tract of land between two rivers : interfluve"
- ^ Pakistan: Soils, Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010,
... khaddar soils. Away from the river, toward the middle of the doabs, older alluvial soils (called bangar) are widely distributed ...
- ^ Damage to Yamuna Khadar, Ravi Shankar's Art of Living Responsible: NGT, Khas Khabar. 7 Dec 2017.
- ^ a b "The imperial gazeteers of India, 1908", British Raj, page 288.
- ^ ISBN 0801498716.
- ^ 1987, "gazetteer of India: Hisar District" Archived 1 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine, page 7.
- ^ 1987, "Gazeteers of Hisar district, 1987" Archived 7 November 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Government of Haryana, page 162.]
- ^ F.C. Channing (1882), Land Revenue Settlement of the Gurgaon District, Government of India,
... The rates here applied were the same as those applied in the Bangar and Khadar circles and the same comparisons hold good ...
- ^ Oswald Wood, R. Maconachie (1882), Final report on the settlement of land revenue in the Delhi District, Government of India, 1882,
... The Khadar-Bangar chak lies along the river; 37 villages are purely Khadar and 39 partly Khadar partly Bangar. The villages nearest the river are subject to inundations, but where the water runs off in time, the natural fertility of the ...
- ^ Encyclopedia Britannica.
- ^ "Archaeology Of Lower Ganga-Yamuna Doab 2 Volumes".
- ^ ISBN 978-81-7625-738-1. Retrieved 12 June 2010.
References
- ISBN 978-0-19-864339-5, retrieved 11 September 2013