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History 8 India Ancient India Workbook

8. What else about the geographical features of southern India might explain why it was able to stay more isolated from outside influence than other regions of India?

Southern India is a peninsula, so it could only be accessed from the outside by boat, or the outsiders would have to come through northern India. Also bordering this peninsula and shielding it from the east and west are the Eastern and Western Ghats, respectively. These geographical features would have made southern India very hard to get to, and therefore, it stayed isolated from outside influence.

Sources: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1342 http://www.ecoindia.com/ghats/eastern.html http://www.freeworldmaps.net/asia/india/map.html