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Soils Found in Northeast India - Classification, Distribution and Erosion

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Northeast India is a place of heavy rainfall, high relative humidity, and high-temperature cause rapid weathering of rocks. As the weathering of surface rocks of the hills and mountains proceeds, the sheet flood caused by heavy rainfall removes the weathered materials and carries them down to the headward steams of the rivers.  The rapidly flowing rivers then carry the sediments, big and small, down to the foothills and plains.
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Purvanchal Mountain Range of North East India | UPSC, APSC

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The Purvanchal Range or Eastern Mountain is a sub-mountain range of Himalaya. “ Purvanchal ” as the name itself suggests, it is the eastern frontier region of India is surrounded by Bangladesh in the south-west, Myanmar in the south-east and china in the north-east. Its north-western limit, for a major part, follows the boundaries of Meghalaya-Mikir region, Assam valley and Eastern Himalaya and the plain areas of Tripura and Cachar are the continuations of Surma valley.
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Treaty of Yandabo and Its Impact on Northeast India | UPSC, APSC

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The Treaty of Yandabo is the peace treaty that put an end to the First Anglo-Burmese war with the British emerging victorious. The treaty was signed on 24 February 1826, almost two years after the war broke out on 5 March 1824.  The treaty was signed by General Sir Archibald Campbell on the British side and on the Burmese side by the Governor of Legaing Maha Min Hla Kyaw Htin.  The British army had reached Yandabo village which was just eighty kilometers from the then capital Ava. This was one of the main reasons why the Burmese agreed to sign the treaty without any discussion. Terms of the Treaty of Yandabo The terms of the Treaty of Yandabo are as follows: The Burmese agreed to cede Assam, Manipur, Arakan, Tanesserim coast to the British completely without any type of control over these territories. The Burmese were to stop all interference in Cachar and Jaintia hills. The Burmese had to pay an indemnity of one million pound sterling in four installments to the British with...
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The Hills and Mountains in Northeast India

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The Hills and Mountain Ranges of Northeast India have two different geological and physiographical units. In the northeastern part of the region hills and ranges is part of the Himalayas Mountain. On the other hand, the southwestern part of the region's hills and ranges is the production of the Peninsular Plateau.
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