Talk:Deccan Plateau

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Does anybody knows what is highest peak of Deccan? Luka Jačov 16:35, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

People

The article says "The three large cities in the Deccan are Chennai, Hyderabad and Bangalore." When did Chennai (which is in the Eastern Coastal plains, and at sea level, become a part of the Deccan plateau? Similarly, why are Coimbatore and Salem mentioned? They are south of the Nilgiris, and beyond the plateau. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.46.55.31 (talk) 10:49, 28 August 2012 (UTC)

Course of Cauvery

The article says:

The southernmost portion of the plateau is drained by the Kaveri River, which rises in the Western Ghats of Karnataka and bends south to break through the Nilgiri hills at Hogenakal Falls into Tamil Nadu, then forming the Sivasamudram Falls at island town of Shivanasamudra, the second biggest waterfall in India and the sixteenth largest in the world,[7] before flowing into the Stanley Reservoir and the Mettur Dam that created the reservoir and finally emptying into the Bay of Bengal.

I think Shivanasamudra Falls comes before Hogenakal Falls in the sequence. Is it not? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.164.104.166 (talk) 13:17, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Removed bullshit

• I removed the bullshit I encountered at the bottom:

some animals are parakeets and crows
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--Imz 01:59, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Maps

arnet there any good maps of these sorts of places? Even just screenshots from like google earth would do but its really annoying when descriptions arent that clear. Thrawst 04:56, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Dear Geologist ...

Well I was going to place the content removed here for consideration, but - found where it was copied from ... [1] --so I'll just leave it out as a case of blatant copyvio. Vsmith 23:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Average height

As per the article the plateau height varies like..

1,500 to 2,500 feet (450 to 750 m)

Bangalore, the largest city in the plateau is 900m from sea level. So there is some problem with the upper limit I think.--Sahodaran 12:39, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

Moved to talk page from History

In addition to this, modern study of monuments and inscriptions has recovered the names, and to a certain extent the records, of a succession of dynasties ruling in the Deccan; of these the most conspicuous are the Cholas, the Andhras or Satavahanas, the Chalukyas, the Rashtrakutas and the Yadavas of Devagiri (Deogiri). (In the interests of making this article more readable and accessible, I am removing detailed history here.) Sincerely, Mattisse

second footnote

I followed the link to the second footnote afte rhte statement that this region is 'one of the most stable in the world'and the site it linked to had no data supporting this claim. It didnt even appear to assert that either. Shouldn't that be removed?! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.190.88 (talk) 22:07, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree, and I removed it. ArgentTurquoise (talk) 00:59, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

familiar, "downward-pointing," triangle?

Does that mean, "southward-pointing?" Josh Moses (talk) 20:29, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Abhiras were also rulers of Deccan

The castes and tribes of H.E.H. the Nizam's dominions, Volume 1 By Syed Siraj ul Hassan-page-12

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=lYSd-3yL9h0C&pg=PA12&dq=deccan+ahir&hl=en&ei=0zOITYHFBYSIrAeL-JzVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CFAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=deccan%20ahir&f=false

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=EBMFAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PT28&dq=deccan+ahir&hl=en&ei=1DiITd_4EIjRrQey8OTSDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAjge#v=onepage&q=deccan%20ahir&f=false

The people of India: A series of photographic illustrations, with ..., Volume 1 By Meadows Taylor, Great Britain. India Office

[[Category:]]http://www.britannica.com/place/Deccan

Deccan,the entire southern peninsula of India south of the Narmada River, marked centrally by a high triangular tableland. The name derives from the Sanskrit daksina (“south”). The plateau is bounded on the east and west by the Ghats, escarpments that meet at the plateau’s southern tip. Its northern extremity is the Satpura Range. The Deccan’s average elevation is about 2,000 feet (600 metres), sloping generally eastward. Its principal rivers—the Godavari, Krishna, and Kaveri (Cauvery)—flow from the Western Ghats eastward to the Bay of Bengal. The plateau’s climate is drier than that on the coasts and is arid in places.

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_target of the redirect Deccan

There appears to be some disagreement over the correct _target of the redirect Deccan. This has always _targeted Deccan Plateau, but in User:Deccania's view, it should instead be re_targeted to Deccan (disambiguation). The root of the problem seems to be that the Deccan is a broader cultural and historical region whose boundaries extend beyond the limits of the physicogeographic pleateau. True, but this article, despite its name, is about the whole region and not just the plateau, see particularly Deccan Plateau#Extent. What should we do with the redirect? Will the current article be better of if moved to the base title? – Uanfala 19:45, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Probably a good idea is to move the article from Deccan Plateau to Deccan, and update the intro to mention that the term is used to refer to a physico-geographical as well as geocultural region. utcursch | talk 19:55, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

My impression of the current Deccan Plateau article is that most of the sections (Introduction, Geography, Geology, Economy) are about the Deccan Plateau. Two other sections (People [unsourced], History) may be about a wider Deccan region in the linguistic sense described in the Extent section, but I don't think these sections are explicit enough to know if the use of the word "Deccan" in these sections is just short for Deccan Plateau or not. I suggest keeping this article for Deccan Plateau (in the geographic sense), and I suggest that the cultural aspects (People, History) could be moved to a new article Deccan (culture). Then a Deccan (disambiguation) page could list Deccan Plateau and Deccan (culture). GeoWriter (talk) 21:07, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

Deccan is a word that is derived from the Sanskrit word Dakshina meaning Southern. People who do not have in-depth knowledge of things will make errors that will end up creating disambiguation and new erroneous synonyms leading to the denigration of a language. In fact, calling our Wiki Disambiguatiom pages as such with so many unrelated words which start or contain the same name is also not something properly done because disambiguation means to remove uncertainty of meaning from a word or sentence, but we (including me) seem to be creating more ambiguity by creating the Wiki Disambiguation pages. These pages are mostly containing wiki article names that contain the title we are searching on, that is all, and not really removing any ambiguity of the word in context otherwise we would not be having this discussion. Deccan must not redirect to Deccan Plateau but redirect to the Disambiguation page as far as I think. What I said also holds true for the usage of the word Deccan and Deccan Plateau as synonyms, somebody made an interpretation mistake and the mistake is being continued. Deccan contains a plateau which is referred to as Deccan plateau. Deccan also contains plains and coasts and mountains and rivers and other geographical entities. Deccania (talk) 22:16, 1 December 2017 (UTC)

In all rightness, Deccan must redirect to a new article called Deccan Peninsula. Deccan Peninsula is the peninsular India located south of the the Satpura and Vindhya Ranges. Deccania (talk) 04:49, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

Comment. This discussion WP:DISCUSSFORKs the one at RFD. It would make it easier to reach a good WP:CONSENSUS if all new posts were made there. Narky Blert (talk) 21:39, 2 December 2017 (UTC)

References

Might want to add examples of plants? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 21winge (talk • contribs) 01:56, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

MAP: A map is worth 1000 words

Would someone with sufficient editing experience please add the topographic map:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_Geographic_Map.jpg

However, include the corrigenda noted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satpura_Range#

An alternative is to use the corrected map with French country labels: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:India_topogaphy-fr.jpg

The third option, albeit entailing more work, is to create a new English language map.

A different map, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IndiaElevationMap.png, is clearer but lacks labels. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 16:39, 22 March 2020 (UTC)