Vindhya Mountains
a range of hills which extends across central India, almost due E. and W. from the plateau of Chota Nagpur, overhanging the basin of the Ganges, to the shore of the Arabian Sea in Gujerat. Their total length is about 500 miles, and the highest peak does not exceed 6,000 feet. The formation is granitic overlaid with sandstone. They form on the N. a continuous border to the Nerbudda, and with that river they are regarded as forming the traditional boundary between Hindustan proper on the N. and the Deccan on the S. The "fourfold girdle round the waist of India" is completed by the Satpura range and the Tapti river.