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Ganges

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The paragraphs in the index’s own groups, a chapter to each, in the order the index prints them, and in the order of the book within each. A paragraph read in an earlier chapter is named in one line.

Andites migrated into valley of 1 paragraph

79:2.4About 15,000 B.C. in­creas­ing pop­u­la­tion pres­sure through­out Tur­kes­tan and Iran oc­ca­sioned the first re­ally ex­ten­sive And­ite move­ment to­ward In­dia. For over fif­teen cen­turies these su­pe­rior peo­ples poured in through the high­lands of Baluchis­tan, spread­ing out over the val­leys of the In­dus and Ganges and slowly mov­ing south­ward into the Dec­can. This And­ite pres­sure from the north­west drove many of the south­ern and east­ern in­fe­ri­ors into Burma and south­ern China but not suf­fi­ciently to save the in­vaders from racial oblit­er­a­tion.

delta is work of last 50,000 years 1 paragraph

79:2.1In­dia is the only lo­cal­ity where all the Uran­tia races were blended, the And­ite in­va­sion adding the last stock. In the high­lands north­west of In­dia the San­gik races came into ex­is­tence, and with­out ex­cep­tion mem­bers of each pen­e­trated the sub­con­ti­nent of In­dia in their early days, leav­ing be­hind them the most het­ero­ge­neous race mix­ture ever to ex­ist on Uran­tia. An­cient In­dia acted as a catch basin for the mi­grat­ing races. The base of the penin­sula was for­merly some­what nar­rower than now, much of the deltas of the Ganges and In­dus be­ing the work of the last fifty thou­sand years.

Dravidian centers along 1 paragraph

79:3.6The Dra­vid­ian cen­ters of cul­ture were lo­cated in the river val­leys, prin­ci­pally of the In­dus and Ganges, and in the Dec­can along the three great rivers flow­ing through the East­ern Ghats to the sea. The set­tle­ments along the sea­coast of the West­ern Ghats owed their promi­nence to mar­itime re­la­tion­ships with Sume­ria.

high Aryan-Dravidian culture on plains of 1 paragraph

79:4.4On the Gangetic plain Aryan and Dra­vid­ian even­tu­ally min­gled to pro­duce a high cul­ture, and this cen­ter was later re­in­forced by con­tri­bu­tions from the north­east, com­ing from China.

marine life evolved in bay of 1 paragraph

59:6.9The grad­ual cool­ing of the ocean wa­ters con­tributed much to the de­struc­tion of oceanic life. The ma­rine an­i­mals of those ages took tem­po­rary refuge in three fa­vor­able re­treats: the pres­ent Gulf of Mex­ico re­gion, the Ganges Bay of In­dia, and the Si­cil­ian Bay of the Med­i­ter­ra­nean basin. And it was from these three re­gions that the new ma­rine species, born to ad­ver­sity, later went forth to re­plen­ish the seas.

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Cited alongside: Indus, India, Deccan