HAPPY INDIA 



CHAPTER I 



Brief description of geography, climate, animals, population, 

 history Capacities and occupation of the people. 



INDIA is perhaps the most wonderful country in the 

 world, stretching from Cape Comorin on the south 

 to the Karakoram range of mountains in the north 

 of Kashmir, extending from 8 degrees to 37 degrees 

 north latitude. It reaches from the high and desert 

 lands of Baluchistan to the fertile uplands of the 

 Shan States of Burmah, reaching from 61 degrees 

 to 10 1 degrees east longitude. In round figures 

 it stretches 2,500 miles from east to west, and 2,000 

 miles from north to south, bounded on the north 

 by the snow-capped Himalayan mountains, the 

 loftiest range in the world, and on the south it ends 

 in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean. 



No other continental country is so well protected 

 from invasion on its land frontier. The Himalayas 

 on the north, beginning at the extreme east and 

 stretching through Kashmir to the Hindoo Koosh 

 on the north-west, the Sulaiman mountains and 



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