🌊 Rivers · The Peninsular Plateau
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A large south-bank tributary of the Ganga. It rises on the Amarkantak plateau, forms a series of waterfalls at the plateau’s edge and joins the Ganga at Arrah, west of Patna.
📘 NCERT Class 11, India: Physical Environment, Ch. 3 (Drainage System) ↗
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