11) Allahabad. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Uttar Pradesh state, N central India. On the site of Prayag, an ancient Indo-Aryan holy city, Allahabad is at the junction of two sacred rivers, the Yamuna and the...
12) Doab. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...India to a tract of land between two converging rivers. The Doab, unqualified by the names of any rivers, designates the tract in Uttar Pradesh state between the...
13) Punjab. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Since 1947 it has been separated into an Indian state and a Pakistani province bearing the same name. The Indus River bounds the region in part of the west and the...
14) Agra. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The presidency, or province, of Agra was created in 1833 when the British partitioned the Bengal presidency. In 1836, Agra was renamed the North West Province. In...
15) Uttar Pradesh. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...The capital is Lucknow. Other important cities are Allahabad, Bareilly, Kanpur, and Varanasi. The most populous state of India, it was formed in 1950 by merging the...
16) Ganges. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Gangotri glacier in the Himalayas in Uttaranchal state, India, and flowing generally southeast through NE India across a vast plain to the Bay of Bengal in Bangladesh;...
17) India. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Republic of India, republic (2001 provisional pop. 1,027,015,247), 1,261,810 sq mi (3,268,090 sq km), S Asia. The second most populous country in the world, it is...
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