KBC 14: Which of the following is the largest plateau in India in Terms of Area?
A) Deccan Plateau
B) Marwar Plateau
C) Malwa Plateau
D) Ladakh Plateau
Answer: Deccan Plateau
Deccan Plateau is the largest plateau in India. The Deccan Plateau is a large plateau in southern India that lies between the Western and Eastern Ghats and is informally described as the peninsular territory south of the Narmada River between these mountains. It is bordered to the north by the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges. The Deccan plateau, which lies between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, is a topographically diverse area located south of the Gangetic plains.
The Deccan Plateau is higher in the west and slopes gently eastwardsan extension of the plateau is also visible in the northeast – locally known as the Meghalaya,
Karbi Anglong Plateau and North Cachar Hills. It is separated by a fault from the Chhotanagpur Plateau.
Three prominent hill ranges from the west to east are the Garo, the Khasi and the Jaintia hills.
The Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats mark the western and the eastern edges of the Deccan Plateau respectively.
The Deccan plateau is a land rich in history. The plateau’s mineral wealth led many lowland rulers, including those of the Mauryan (4th-2nd century BC) and Gupta (4th-6th century AD) dynasties, to fight over it. The Satvahanas (28 BC-AD 250) emerged as an independent power in the Deccan in the first century bc. South of the Satvahanna kingdom, three dynasties emerged. These were the Cholas of Tanjore, the Pandyas centered in Madurai, and the Cheras along the Malabar Coast. The Cheras, Cholas and Pandyas appear to have been continually at war with each other. Cultural interaction between these kingdoms and the north exposed the rest of India to the rich Sangam literature of the south.
The Satvahanas, Pallavas, Eastern Chalukyas, Kakatiyas, and the Vijayanagara kings successively ruled the region until it became part of the Qutb Shahi kingdom of Golconda. It later came under the rule of the Nizam Shahi dynasty of Hyderabad. Since the establishment of the Indian Union in 1947, there have been repeated demands for the creation of a Telangana state, separate from Andhra Pradesh.
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