Monday, January 31, 2005

Ghats

Two mountain ranges forming the eastern and western edges, respectively, of the Deccan (q.v.) plateau of peninsular India. In Hindi ghat means �river landing stairs� or �mountain pass� and has been extended in its Anglicized plural form (formerly �ghauts�) to include the mountains themselves. The word refers as well to riverbanks that have been artificially terraced for bathing

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