Describe the central highlands
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The native inhabitants of the Central Highlands are the Degar (Montagnard) peoples. Ethnic Vietnamese (Kinh) people arrived in the area during their "march to the south" (Nam tiến). The Vietnamese now outnumber the indigenous Degars after state sponsored settlement directed by both the government of the Republic of Vietnam and the current Communist government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. The Montagnards have fought against and resisted all Vietnamese settlers, from the anti-Communist South Vietnamese government, the Viet Cong, to the Communist government of unified Vietnam.
The Champa state and Chams in the lowlands were traditional suzerains whom the Montagnards in the highlands acknowledged as their lords, while autonomy was held by the Montagnards.[1] After 1945, concept of "Nam tiến" and the southward expansion was celebrated by Vietnamese scholars.[2] The Pays Montagnard du Sud-Indochinois was the name of the Central Highlands from 1946 under French Indochina.[3]
Up until French rule, the Central Highlands was almost never entered by the Vietnamese since they viewed it as a savage (Moi-Montagnard) populated area with fierce animals like tigers, "poisoned water" and "evil malevolent spirits." The Vietnamese expressed interest in the land after the French transformed it into a profitable plantation area to grow crops on,[4] in addition to the natural resources from the forests, minerals and rich earth and realization of its crucial geographical importance.[5]
An insurgency was waged by Montagnards in FULRO against South Vietnam and then unified Communist Vietnam.[6] A settlement program of ethnic Kinh Vietnamese by the governments of the Republic of Vietnam and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam was implemented[7][8] and now a Kinh majority predominates in the highland areas.[9] After mass demonstrations and protests during 2001 and 2004 by ethnic hill tribe minorities against the communist government, foreigners were banned from the Central Highlands for a period of time.
Explanation:
centra highlands form the northern part of the india. They have a series of plateaus, such as Malwa,Bundelkhand Baghelkhand and Chotanagpur . These plateau are made up of hard igneous rocks.All the rivers from the central highlands join the yamuna and ganga from the south.