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Thar Desert Summary
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The Thar Desert, or Great Indian Desert, is an arid region of 208,000 square kilometers in northwestern India and eastern Pakistan; it is the largest desert in South Asia. Located between the Indus and Sutlej River valleys, much of the Thar Desert...
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Region of hot, dry desert, northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan. Its undulating surface is composed of sand dunes separated by sandy plains and low, barren hills. Several saline lakes are found there. Covering some 77,000 sq mi (200,000 sq km),...
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The Thar Desert (Hindi: थार मरुस्थल), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a desert located in western India and southeastern Pakistan. It lies mostly in the Indian state of Rajasthan, and extends into the southern portion of...


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The Washington Post
INDIA; The Far Reaches; Across the Thar Desert By Camel: Seeking the Exotic, Finding Reality
10/22/1989: 3,197 words, approx. 11 pages
The idea of owning a pair of noisome, noisy camels never much occurred to me, not even after my wife, Chloe, stumbled headlong over debris in a cobbled back street in Bikaner, India, nearly impaling herself on the directional arrow of a "Camel Market"...
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The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Rajasthan on the hoof; Elinor Goodman enjoys a spot of horseplay at the camel fair as she treks through old India's amazing Thar desert.
05/20/2007: 1,368 words, approx. 5 pages
Byline: ELINOR GOODMAN FOR a moment, I was the star attraction at the Nagaur camel fair in western Rajasthan. I sat astride the camel that had just come third in the best ridden category, and gazed through the dusty mist over what...
 


 

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