. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . 23) is chiefly mined in coalfieldslying along a semicircle passing through the headwatersof the Damodar, Son, Mahanadi and Godavari rivers,the most valuable being around Raniganj, some 100miles north-west of Calcutta. Millet, extensively grown as a food grain, is generallyconfined to those regions which, on account of lack ofmoisture or too poor soil, are not suitable for rice orwheat. Flax is very widely grown, and oil seeds formone of the chief exports of the country. In hot countrieslike India, the fibre does not dev
. A regional geography of the world, with diagrams and entirely new maps . 23) is chiefly mined in coalfieldslying along a semicircle passing through the headwatersof the Damodar, Son, Mahanadi and Godavari rivers,the most valuable being around Raniganj, some 100miles north-west of Calcutta. Millet, extensively grown as a food grain, is generallyconfined to those regions which, on account of lack ofmoisture or too poor soil, are not suitable for rice orwheat. Flax is very widely grown, and oil seeds formone of the chief exports of the country. In hot countrieslike India, the fibre does not develop sufliciently well tobe used for manufacture, but the seed (linseed) is moreabundant than in temperate countries, in which the fibreis of more value than the seed. Ceylon produces rubberand cinchona, which have been introduced from SouthAmerica with conspicuous success. Rubber is cultivatedon the lowlands, and cinchona, from which quinine isobtained, on the hill slo(:)es. Other products of Ceylonare coconuts, cacao and cinnamon, but tea, already INDIA AND CKVLON 317. 3i8 ASIA mentioned, is its chief export. As will be seen, Ceylonsproducts are those of a more equatorial type of climatethan those of India, and it is on this ground that it isincluded with the South-Eastern Archipelago in theclassification of natural regions (see Fig. i). We have left wheat until last because it is grown inIndia as a winter crop ; all the vegetable products men-tioned above are summer crops. Now India receivesHttle rain in winter, so it is evident that much of thewater required must be obtained by irrigation methods,although it is the rule to plant the seed just before thesummer rains cease. The chief w^heat-producing areasare the Punjab and the well region of the upperGanges. Communications, Cities and People. In recent years Indias commerce with the outside worldhas developed very greatly, and this is in no small degreedue to the construction of railways. Pormerly, rivershad been the chief m
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