TISTA  , a See also:

• RIVER

river of See also:

• NORTHERN

northern See also:

• INDIA
• INDIA, FRENCH

India, which rises on the edge of the Tibetan See also:

• PLATEAU (a French term, older platel, for a flat piece of wood, metal, &c., from plat, flat)
• PLATEAU, JOSEPH ANTOINE FERDINAND (1801-1883)

plateau, and flows through the See also:

• MOUNTAIN (0. Fr. montaigne; popular Lat. montanea, an adjectival form from the classical mons, montis, whence Eng. " mount," a form usually used along with the name of an individual mountain, e.g. Mt Everest)
• MOUNTAIN, THE (La Montagne)

mountain See also:

• GORGES, SIR FERDINANDO (c. 1566-1647)

gorges of See also:

• SIKKIM

Sikkim and See also:

• DARJEELING

Darjeeling, till it spills itself over the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of Eastern See also:

• BENGAL
• BENGAL, BAY OF

Bengal . In the 18th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century its course was due See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south to join the See also:

• GANGES (GANGA)

Ganges; but in 1787 See also:

• GREAT

great floods diverted the stream towards the south-See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east, and it now enters the See also:

• BRAHMAPUTRA

Brahmaputra, the whole See also:

• DISTRICT

district of See also:

• RANGPUR, or RUNGPORE

Rangpur being scored by various interlacing channels . Its See also:

• TOTAL

total length in See also:

• BRITISH

British territory is about 170 T .